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Hopefully they dont stop at being only 50% of C Speed.

So asm.js, will be what Java was originally, write once run ( nearly ) everywhere. asm.js being the bytecode of JVM.

Would that also means asm.js essentially open source your code? Are there anyway to protect it like JVM bytecode or are Mozilla not interested in this.

Would IonMonkey, the whole JS Engine be available as a standalone product like JVM was?

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> Would that also means asm.js essentially open source your code? Are there anyway to protect it like JVM bytecode or are Mozilla not interested in this.

asm.js is JavaScript, so it can be protected like all JavaScript, through minification and obfuscation. There is no intentional obfuscation in Emscripten, but in an optimized build we do minify aggressively to reduce code size, exactly like other minified code on the web.