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Lowkeyloki
on May 23, 2019
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BigInt Shipping in Firefox
I can't wait to kick the tires on this feature. I wonder how it compares to the integer implementation in WebAssembly.
recursive
on May 23, 2019
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WebAssembly has not arbitrary precision integers, so presumably is able to execute arithmetic as direct hardware instructions. bigint, on the other hand, is arbitrary precision, so it obviously can't do that.
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