> If Native Client gets popular and starts replacing other more > crossplatform web technologies (truly or at least potentially > crossplatform) it will hurt interoperability. People with x86 > hardware > get somewhat better performance and the others are locked out, unless > they write x86 emulation and can live with seriously degraded > performance. > > Just what the world needed: another x86 lock-in. Great plan, Google. I really wonder as well. I also wonder how they cope with cpu-specific stuff... mmx ? 3dnow ? :D x86 isn't the cleanest arch to use for that kind of stuff. Time will tell I suppose. I wish they would push for Java with a faster gui layer instead (java isn't that slow, it's the AWT/Swing pile that slows it down). Oh well. François.