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Re:Making WebAssembly better for Rust and for all languages by icebraining on Thursday March 15, 2018 @02:17AM (#16590778)
Why is there a huge overhead to that? And how much is "huge"?
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Re:Making WebAssembly better for Rust and for all languages by austincheney on Thursday March 15, 2018 @06:13AM (#16591559)
Because a web browser is essentially an operating system running many internal applications. Simply open an empty browser with a single tab and watch how much memory it consumes. Compare that with a new command shell.
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Re:Making WebAssembly better for Rust and for all languages by icebraining on Thursday March 15, 2018 @08:04AM (#16592058)
I think harpocrates was talking about running webassembly programs without the browser.
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