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WA doesn't get interpreted. It gets validated and passed over to the JIT (TurboFan). It comes over the wire so that validation has to be thorough (read that as expensive).


Hmm. I didn't say it was interpreted in any given browser implementation. I was judging the serialization format for what it is, vs reasonable alternatives. Analysis, transformation and interpretation are what you want out of this kind of encoding.

I also don't agree re expensive validation; I think you're wrong. Interface with APIs much more problematic than pure computation, which is not hard to validate. Interface safety is largely the same problem as with plain JS, as I see it. I don't see stack machine vs register machine making almost any difference at all.




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