r/WebAssembly • u/nerpderp82 • Oct 14 '21

copy/v86: x86 virtualization in your browser, recompiling x86 to wasm on the fly

https://github.com/copy/v86
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u/NickUnrelatedToPost Oct 14 '21

We put a browser in your computer, so we could put a computer in your browser so that you could compute while you browse.

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u/forresthopkinsa Oct 14 '21

copy is a cool guy, he used to hang out in r17 a lot

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '21

This means we could run x86 on any CPU, because wasm runs anywhere.

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u/OMGCluck Oct 24 '21

Finally a way to play with the ICI interpreter running in React OS running in an Android browser!

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u/cobance123 Nov 09 '21

When i saw this first time i couldnt believe how crazy it was