Not So Fast: Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code

Re:Not So Fast: Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs.... by GeneralMaximus on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @09:25AM (#20459160)

Figma (https://www.figma.com/) is a design tool that runs in the browser and makes heavy use of WASM. It's definitely slower than using a native app like Sketch, but not slow enough to be completely impractical. A few design people I work with here in India have switched to Figma from Sketch, and they seem very pleased with the results.

I can see WASM becoming useful for enabling apps that do real-time audio/video/image processing in the browser. Games are another obvious use case.

Maybe one day I'll be able to run an Ableton-lite right in the browser.

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Re:Not So Fast: Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs.... by throwawaywindev on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @09:50AM (#20459443)

Everyone likes Figma because of its real time collaboration. The performance is terrible but you put up with it because of the features.

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