Re: lua.vm.js - Lua VM, on the Web

[Wesley Smith <wesley.hoke@...>]

> There's more to it than that -- Firefox and emscripten are tuned for
> each other. Firefox has explicit optimization paths to handle
> emscripten's output.

Exactly.  Firefox has optimized asm.js paths in its interpreter and
asm.js is what emscripten outputs.  For details, see
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/native-level-performance-on-the-web-a-brief-examination-of-asm-js/3/