A first look at WebAssembly performance

Re:A first look at WebAssembly performance by sqeaky on Thursday February 09, 2017 @02:13PM (#13609896)

So you can write code that is 64x times slower when you specifically optimize for a slowdown. Cool.

Can you run that in web assembly and get the same slowdown. If so most of the same things that allow C/C++ to faster than other languages on systems will also allow them to be faster in the browser.

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Re:A first look at WebAssembly performance by Coding_Cat on Thursday February 09, 2017 @06:17PM (#13611954)

Yeah, this will affect any language that stores structs as POD (plain old data) as long as it has somewhat sensible alignment rules and allocation (i.e. doesn't hide every struct behind a pointer, doesn't align char's to 8 bytes).

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