Re:Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web
by nikeee on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @02:47PM
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> the only viable use cases were compute-heavy workloads like codecs and crypto,
I tried using it for crypto, but WASM does not have instructions for crypto. So it basically falls back to be non-hw-accelerated.
Tried to find out why and the explanation seems to be that it's not needed because JS has a `crypto` API which uses hw intrinsics.
I tried using it for crypto, but WASM does not have instructions for crypto. So it basically falls back to be non-hw-accelerated. Tried to find out why and the explanation seems to be that it's not needed because JS has a `crypto` API which uses hw intrinsics.