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Re:A Real-World WebAssembly Benchmark by reitzensteinm on Thursday July 05, 2018 @09:16PM (#17468223)
Liftoff is still substantially slower at initial compilation than Firefox. Are there any plans to close the gap? A Unity exported game takes over 40 seconds for a new model low end Chromebook to compile. The upcoming 3 fold decrease will be nice, but FF could do it in 2 seconds on the same hardware.

https://lukewagner.github.io/test-tanks-compile-time/

FF 61: 78.4 MB/s

Chrome Canary: 9.7 MB/s

Chrome 67: 3.3 MB/s

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Re:A Real-World WebAssembly Benchmark by titzer on Friday July 06, 2018 @01:57AM (#17469237)
We still have a bottleneck at instantation time where we compile many JS<->WASM wrappers. We are working on parallelizing this compilation as well, so we'll get another bump out of that.
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