Re:Single Page Applications using Rust
by FridgeSeal on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @05:33AM
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V8 is an incredible piece of machinery, and I really wish other JIT's and languages got access to half the engineering and monetary effort that went into it.
> often running faster than WASM
This seems pretty counter to everything I've read about WASM - V8 is some black magic, but WASM should run far faster.
What language was the WASM blob compiled from?
Mozilla has also demonstrated that they can send the DOM to a WASM blob, have it perform the necessary transformations and return it, faster than JS could perform the same transformations itself.
Re:Single Page Applications using Rust
by dom96 on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @11:27AM
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I was actually playing with the raw WASM, but I checked what Rust compiled to and ran it as well (it wasn't any better). It was a simple fibonacci benchmark so perhaps not representative but it still left me very disappointed.
> often running faster than WASM
This seems pretty counter to everything I've read about WASM - V8 is some black magic, but WASM should run far faster. What language was the WASM blob compiled from? Mozilla has also demonstrated that they can send the DOM to a WASM blob, have it perform the necessary transformations and return it, faster than JS could perform the same transformations itself.