Ben Smith

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> In full honesty V8's implementation is also incomplete Can you please file bugs at http://crbug.com/v8/new?

Agreed this sounds like a good idea, it matches nicely with the way WebAssembly already uses the stack and locals. When you say it's different to `let`, what do you...

> But now you're talking about a much more heavyweight feature for engines to support it. Is it? In many ways it fits nicely with what engines already have to...

I think this is an interesting idea, but it would be much more compelling with data. `let` was useful for the function-references proposal because it provides a real value --...

Sounds potentially useful, but I'm note quite sure how to translate that info into wasm binary savings. I guess if we knew how common `dup` is in JVM, and then...

> In the case of JavaScript, how should we represent i64s that are thrown with an exception? One solution would be to throw if you try to access those values,...

It's a fair point that it would be possible to keep `assert_return_*_nan` working in wabt too, since we keep `get_local`, `anyfunc` etc. as well. That said, I think @sbc100 is...

I think @rossberg preferred the single letter names; in particular, ISTR without them you need to bracket the letters (or they'll be interpreted as implicit multiplication). In any case, these...

It's a good question. My guess is that with SIMD the performance would get pretty close, but I haven't been able to verify that. Personally, I think that this is...