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Re:WAVM: standalone WebAssembly VM prototype by fizzbatter on Monday June 06, 2016 @01:50PM (#11848723)
Dumb question, but is the purpose of this to run WASM code (binaries/etc) in standalone?

Ie, is Nodejs to Javascript as WAVM is to WASM?

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Re:WAVM: standalone WebAssembly VM prototype by ascheidecker on Monday June 06, 2016 @02:57PM (#11849317)
Not exactly. Node.js will probably integrate a future release of V8 that supports WebAssembly, and WAVM isn't a suitable replacement for that.

WAVM is more like V8, but for WebAssembly only instead of both JavaScript and WebAssembly. The purpose is to serve as a simple VM for my programming language that compiles to WebAssembly.

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