Comment by Sponge5

An instruction set that is supported by all major browsers sounds enticing. I have tried the hello_world demo with Emscripten a couple years ago and was stumped that the generated page had multiple megabytes. In the first example in this page, I read

    This will output a pkg/ directory containing our wasm module, wrapped in a js object.

So I'm guessing that the result is the same. Why is it so? Hello world requires a print function, which I suppose needs a small subset of some implementation of libc. Why so much space? Why the need for a .js object? Shouldn't we be bypassing the JS engine?