WebAssembly is more than the web

Re:WebAssembly is more than the web by zackbloom on Friday July 13, 2018 @09:23PM (#17528216)

This is technically web, but not in the way you might think. We (Cloudflare) are working on providing WASM support in our Workers [1] product that lets you run code in our 155 data centers around the world.

WASM is great because we can run it in V8 isolates which are much lighter weight than containers or full VMs.

[1] https://cloudflareworkers.com

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Re:WebAssembly is more than the web by xxgreg on Saturday July 14, 2018 @02:52AM (#17529175)

What are the security implications here?

i.e. the Chrome team, post-Spectre, are assuming that any value in a process' memory is readable by any code executing within that process.

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Re:WebAssembly is more than the web by jeremyjh on Saturday July 14, 2018 @05:10AM (#17529511)

V8's developer guide[1] recommends running un-trusted code in separate processes. So each worker job would need to fork.

[1] https://github.com/v8/v8/wiki/Untrusted-code-mitigations#san...

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Re:WebAssembly is more than the web by elcritch on Friday July 13, 2018 @11:59PM (#17528738)

That’s awesome! Much closer to what I think of as "serverless".

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Re:WebAssembly is more than the web by wes-k on Saturday July 14, 2018 @12:21AM (#17528809)

Thanks for sharing, this looks very exciting! Bring on more docs and examples!!

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