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Re:The Python scientific stack, compiled to WebAssembly by lkbm on Friday August 24, 2018 @09:41AM (#17834858)
There's a chart and some discussion here: http://droettboom.com/blog/2018/04/04/python-in-the-browser/ (and some followup at http://droettboom.com/blog/2018/04/11/profiling-webassembly/ )

TL;DR: pyodide in Firefox was slower than cpython.

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Re:The Python scientific stack, compiled to WebAssembly by amelius on Friday August 24, 2018 @10:01AM (#17834971)
Thanks. Note that the author of that post said:

> UPDATE 2018-04-11: My hunch was wrong, and I was able to get to the bottom of the root cause and significantly speed up these benchmarks.

And there's an updated graph here:

http://droettboom.com/blog/2018/04/11/profiling-webassembly/

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