News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on WebAssembly: Mozilla Won. Parent comment

Re:WebAssembly: Mozilla Won by kibwen on Thursday June 01, 2017 @12:00PM (#14461422)
The partial intent of WASM is to write things orders of magnitude larger than jQuery. Whether or not it will ever be practical to ship e.g. a complete Photoshop clone in a browser remains to be seen, but if that's your goal then you do have to start worrying about things like parse time.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:WebAssembly: Mozilla Won by TekMol on Thursday June 01, 2017 @02:27PM (#14463007)
Why would the whole Photoshop be downloaded and compiled? I would expect a web app to only download the parts the I use. If I want to blur an image, I don't need the other gazillion filters for example.

And hey, even if photoshop is 1000 times bigger then jquery - that would still compile in one tenth of a second.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:WebAssembly: Mozilla Won by vanderZwan on Friday June 02, 2017 @03:46AM (#14468209)
Developers like you are why apps are slow when they don't need to be.

EDIT: Also, if you think 10%-20% smaller downloads aren't worth it, you're clearly not working at a CDN.

[ Parent | on HN ]