Re:WebAssembly: The New Kubernetes?
by billti on Friday January 21, 2022 @12:42PM
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> How does WASM handle different architectures?
The same way JavaScript or C#/Java do. It's a bytecode format (typically the first stage in today's JavaScript engines is to turn into a bytecode), which the different engines then JIT for the OS and architecture they are running on.
For more details on a couple different engine implementations, you may find the below of interest.
The same way JavaScript or C#/Java do. It's a bytecode format (typically the first stage in today's JavaScript engines is to turn into a bytecode), which the different engines then JIT for the OS and architecture they are running on.
For more details on a couple different engine implementations, you may find the below of interest.
- https://v8.dev/docs/wasm-compilation-pipeline
- https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/10/a-new-backend-for-cranelif...