Microsoft has added full support for asm.js to Edge in Windows 10

Microsoft has added support for asm.js in Windows Insider builds version 10532 and higher. Since the expected update by many of TH2 for stable versions of Windows comes with version 10586, it will be available on these systems later this month, as Microsoft plans to release TH2 for all systems in November.

Asm.js is a collection of JavaScript commands that execute much faster than regular JavaScript code. The package was created in Mozilla, and received (and still receives) excellent developer reviews. The latter use Asm.js where increased performance is required, for example, to create game engines for browsers. There is even a version of Unreal Engine 3, which was ported to Asm.js. Earlier this year, Microsoft announced its intention to use Mozilla development in its Windows 10 operating system.

More specifically, Asm.js will work.as part of the Chakra engine, which processes scripts in the system. Support for the package adds the ability to use the Emscripten compiler to compile C / C ++ into JavaScript special version with increased speed. Thus, the performance of Unity, Unreal, ScummVM engines can be significantly improved in Windows 10.

In June of this year, Microsoft added package support for its Microsoft Edge browser, but only now, Asm.js support is enabled by default. Optimized code can use WebView.



To demonstrate the capabilities of asm.js in Windows 10, the corporation created Chess Battle . AI with optimized code plays against AI without optimization, with a time limit of one move of 200 ms.

An optimized AI has better performance in the game because it can calculate more moves than an AI without optimization using asm.js.