Web apps and pages may soon get a speed boost to rival the performance of native desktop and mobile applications, thanks to a new standards initiative from Microsoft, Google and Mozilla.

The work, WebAssembly, provides a way to compile the source code for the programmatic parts of Web applications so they can be processed by the browser more quickly.

“I think this is a good evolution trajectory of the Web platform to try and reach the performance … of native languages on mobile devices,” wrote IDC software development analyst Al Hilwa, in an e-mail. “I think it is early days but the Web platform is moving faster than ever these days and so everyone is paying more attention to these developments.”

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