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Re:Why Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from Java... by tomrod on Thursday June 27, 2024 @01:53PM (#40813150)
Well done on the accomplishment -- no small feat to improve runtime 50% in a mature codebase.

I'm interested more in learning how to work within wasmgc. Do you have any resources you'd point to for someone looking to pick it up?

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Re:Why Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from Java... by azakai on Thursday June 27, 2024 @02:41PM (#40813627)
This post might help:

https://v8.dev/blog/wasm-gc-porting

See in particular the "getting started" section near the end:

https://v8.dev/blog/wasm-gc-porting#getting-started

At a lower level the overview in the WasmGC github repo is very good:

https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/main/proposals/gc/Ove...

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