Re:A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and brow...
by TeMPOraL on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @11:40PM
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Doesn't compiling a non-JS language into WASM require compiling a fat language runtime as well? That would put the output in couple-dozen-megabytes category.
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Re:A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and brow...
by dragonwriter on Thursday May 17, 2018 @11:06AM
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> Doesn't compiling a non-JS language into WASM require compiling a fat language runtime as well?
Not necessarily. For a language with a large runtime that is either irreducibly large (perhaps because you need to support unrestricted eval) or for which you don't wish to spend the effort to allow your build toolchain to bundle only as much as your program actually uses, sure.