WATaBoy: JIT-Ing Game Boy Instructions to WASM Beats a Native Interpreter (humphri.es)
74 points by energeticbark 2 hours ago
dag100 an hour ago
This is an incredible project for an undergraduate. Very impressive. Interesting to note that Firefox is 25% slower than Chrome/Safari, I wonder why.
tmpz22 an hour ago
Yeah Claude did great here this should really help them with job interviews.
koolala 33 minutes ago
What are you basing this statement on? The code comments read very human to me. Your the one hurting their chances of finding a job by falsely saying this.
simonw 12 minutes ago
I'd hire an undergraduate who can produce this level of work with Claude.
godwinson__4-8 38 minutes ago
Every company they apply to will be leveraging LLMs. Time to get over it. No need to be grumpy old man about such things. Every generation has faced such foes. The old always yields to the new.
For the times they are a-changin'
milch an hour ago
Very interesting article. Would've been fun to see the comparison between native interpreter & JIT-on-WASM on iOS as well
iberator an hour ago
yet on real old hardware it would be 20x slower in real life. same as all native javascript junk - its fast, but non usuable on older hardware
switchbak 17 minutes ago
Good thing I'm not running games on my 4gb Pentium 4 then.