WebVM: WASM virtual machine in browser with networking via Tailscale

Re:WebVM: WASM virtual machine in browser with networking vi... by MoscMob on Friday October 07, 2022 @02:49AM (#33118181)

I'm waiting for someone to comment that because some programmer was lazy enough to use Go instead of C or C++, Tailscale module takes 16 MB, when the entire CheerpX VM was 6 MB. Just the stack is almost twice as big as the entire VM.

Why is it written in GO when it could have been written in C? Lazy programmers.

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Re:WebVM: WASM virtual machine in browser with networking vi... by bheadmaster on Friday October 07, 2022 @06:12AM (#33119367)

Why would it be written in C when it could be written in assembly? Lazy programmers.

This used to be a serious argument once, by the way.

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Re:WebVM: WASM virtual machine in browser with networking vi... by danielheath on Friday October 07, 2022 @07:12AM (#33119730)

"Structured programming" (AKA the 'for' loop, 'if' statements) had early adopters, and serious arguments over their wasteful inefficiency took place at industry events.

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Re:WebVM: WASM virtual machine in browser with networking vi... by infinite8s on Friday October 07, 2022 @08:31AM (#33120313)

You should read what John von Neumann said about assemblers...

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Re:WebVM: WASM virtual machine in browser with networking vi... by techpro864 on Thursday October 13, 2022 @10:12AM (#33191217)

it was compressed to 3.5 mb

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