Why Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC

Re:Why Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from Java... by bedatadriven on Saturday June 29, 2024 @04:05PM (#40833026)

I'd encourage you to take another look at the article because I don't think your criticisms are well founded.

The javascript version does exist! The fact that it's produced by a compiler doesn't undermine it's existence.

What's interesting here is not that it's slower than the equivalent running on the JVM but that it was _faster_ than a version compiled to wasm.

Well written and useful article if you would like to learn about what type of optimizations are effective in targeting the wasmgc runtime.

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Re:Why Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from Java... by cxr on Saturday June 29, 2024 @10:37PM (#40834766)

I have read it closely no fewer than three times. It's junk and filled with sleights of hand like I already mentioned, which you don't pick up on by not paying enough attention.

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