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Re:Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, what JVM ... by manigandham on Monday April 22, 2019 @03:30PM (#19722036)
It won't be megabytes, that's only in the experimental phase. Binaries can shrink dramatically once run through a linker and trimmed down to only used APIs.

As far as performant, I agree it wont matter in most trivial interactions but large datasets with computations already see an impact (for example we have million row datatables to show sometimes).

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Re:Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, what JVM ... by TimTheTinker on Monday April 22, 2019 @03:43PM (#19722151)
> Binaries can shrink dramatically once run through a linker and trimmed down to only used APIs.

It's worth pointing out that .NET Core has an assembly/executable generator that can package only the .NET libraries that are actually used.

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Re:Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, what JVM ... by nwah1 on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @11:42AM (#19729680)
Rust-based WASM front-end libraries will likely be small and also high performance. Unfortunately, all of the existing ones are highly experimental right now.
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