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Emscripten and New Javascript Engine Bring Unreal Engine To Firefox 124

Posted by Unknown Lamer on Thursday March 28, 2013 @05:52PM from the cycle-is-nearly-complete dept.

MojoKid writes "There's no doubt that gaming on the Web has improved dramatically in recent years, but Mozilla believes it has developed new technology that will deliver a big leap in what browser-based gaming can become. The company developed a highly-optimized version of Javascript that's designed to 'supercharge' a game's code to deliver near-native performance. And now that innovation has enabled Mozilla to bring Epic's Unreal Engine 3 to the browser. As a sort of proof of concept, Mozilla debuted this BananaBread game demo that was built using WebGL, Emscripten, and the new JavaScript version called 'asm.js.' Mozilla says that it's working with the likes of EA, Disney, and ZeptoLab to optimize games for the mobile Web, as well." Emscripten was previously used to port Doom to the browser.

Comment Re:I have the answer, the theory of devolution (Score 1) 763

by megadoo on Friday February 08, 2013 @11:49PM (#42840737) Attached to: Texas School Board Searching For Alternatives To Evolutionary Theory

thanks :P

Comment I have the answer, the theory of devolution (Score 0) 763

by megadoo on Friday February 08, 2013 @09:24PM (#42839783) Attached to: Texas School Board Searching For Alternatives To Evolutionary Theory

I'm glad you asked because I have the answer. It's called the theory of devolution.

The idea that there is one winning party and many losers is obviously wrong. You can have cloud storage that focuses on security, one on speed of upload and on speed of download. If any of them would come first there will be room for others to "devolve" from them.

So if flying birds came first there still might be room in the market for non-flying chickens and vice versa. So far so cool.

Here's where it gets fun.

God created man first but we all think evolution is the answer. How can these two ideas possibly be consolidated?

Praise Darwin because devolution is the answer. God created man first and all the different species devolved from him.

You're welcome.

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