Google Brings Portable Native Client To Chrome

Developers can now compile native C and C++ code to run in Chrome across different hardware architectures.
 As part of its ongoing effort to make Web apps perform as well as native apps, Google on Tuesday released Portable Native Client (PNaCl), a software framework that allows developers to compile native C and C++ code so that it can be embedded in and run from any website.
Native code can take advantage of CPUs and GPUs in a way that Web applications still cannot to enable computationally demanding applications that involve sophisticated graphics.
Portable Native Client differs from Google's Native Client (NaCl) technology in that it creates architecture-independent output. Where native code compiled with NaCl emerges tuned for a specific instruction set, like x86, ARM or MIPS, programs compiled with PNaCl will run on any hardware platform. In other words, they will work on mobile and desktop devices.