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Re:Lucet: Native WebAssembly Compiler and Runtime by dmitriid on Friday March 29, 2019 @05:15AM (#19520146)
WASM has a subset of a subset of a percentage of features that JVM provides.

It's basically a runtime for C/C++-like feature set [1], JVM has support for many of the features that are still on WASM's roadmap [2]

I would be very wary of any performance comparisons between WASM and ... pretty much anything else (except, possibly, bare C?).

[1] https://webassembly.org/docs/high-level-goals/

[2] https://webassembly.org/docs/future-features/

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Re:Lucet: Native WebAssembly Compiler and Runtime by k__ on Friday March 29, 2019 @07:52AM (#19520779)
If I understood this correctly, that's what the Fastly people do. They compare it to bare C binaries and besides string-performance, it holds up good.
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