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A comment on Walt: JavaScript-like syntax for WebAssembly.

Re:Walt: JavaScript-like syntax for WebAssembly by jeffmcmahan on Thursday October 11, 2018 @09:28AM (#18193331)
This looks great. I've been looking for a project like this for a while - a simple language in which I can write hot code and compile it straight to web assembly for use in existing node and web projects.

However, I wonder whether Walt is markedly faster than JIT-compiled javascript? Have you benchmarked the performance gain?

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Re:Walt: JavaScript-like syntax for WebAssembly by abuldauskas on Thursday October 11, 2018 @09:59AM (#18193563)
I have not, this has been requested quite a bit though. My focus is currently on making sure the toolchain is stable and performant itself. It's likely that the performance of the compiled code is on par with other wasm vs JS comparisons though.
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