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Re:Measuring the overhead of WebAssembly using libsodium by sunfish on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @07:40AM (#19623647)
Right now, a lot of it is Cranelift. We haven't yet done much optimization work on Cranelift yet, so there's a lot of room for improvement.
Re:Measuring the overhead of WebAssembly using libsodium by magicalhippo on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @09:00AM (#19624149)
Thanks. A factor 2-4x slower than pure native is totally acceptable for many workloads, and it sounds like that's a realistic goal. Exciting times.