On: Portable Native Client

[augustl]

Isn't it better to ship uncompiled C++ code directly, instead of decompiling and recompiling already compiled code?

Honest question, I'm a noob at compilers :)

[mdaniel → augustl]

Bytecode (whether x86, Java class files or this) is a far more compact and (arguably) more complete representation of the program's logic than the input source code.

Also, you haven't experienced pain until you've tried to compile C or C++ on a machine other than the author's.