Is WebAssembly faster than JavaScript? Any good benchmarks you can link me to?
I found one of Daniel Lemire's [0] from 2018 which seems to suggest it's basically not much faster. 2018 is long enough away from now though that this post may not be relevant. I don't know.
It's odd to me how WebAssembly seemed to be started as a way to get performance
improvements by working with cached instructions (and maybe also explicit memory management and integer types) but I don't hear much about performance these days.
Maybe I'm not paying attention.
Instead I hear more about it as a universal platform or a way you can run C/C++ code in the browser (like tree-sitter and CPython and Ruby, etc.). Or about people using it in edge compute or as the engine for smart contracts. In those ways you could just as well have used the JVM though.
I found one of Daniel Lemire's [0] from 2018 which seems to suggest it's basically not much faster. 2018 is long enough away from now though that this post may not be relevant. I don't know.
It's odd to me how WebAssembly seemed to be started as a way to get performance improvements by working with cached instructions (and maybe also explicit memory management and integer types) but I don't hear much about performance these days.
Maybe I'm not paying attention.
Instead I hear more about it as a universal platform or a way you can run C/C++ code in the browser (like tree-sitter and CPython and Ruby, etc.). Or about people using it in edge compute or as the engine for smart contracts. In those ways you could just as well have used the JVM though.
[0] https://lemire.me/blog/2018/10/23/is-webassembly-faster-than...