Webassembly Vs. Native Code: Performance Analysis (wasm 45% Slower)
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A research paper compares the performance of WebAssembly (WASM) to native code, finding WASM to be 45% slower, sparking discussion on the implications and potential biases in the analysis.
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2022, two comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33054931
2019, 172 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19023413
Given that this paper is from so long ago, running new benchmarks on existing runtimes would be productive.
https://mastodon.world/@cfallin/109833747279454645 mentions https://github.com/bytecodealliance/sightglass
https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc19/presentation/jangda
https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/conference/protec...