Re:It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
by dspillett on Monday September 07, 2026 @12:09AM
(#49593790)
Ah I must have skipped by that bit. And presumably the memory-hard algorithm is CPU-easy enough that this won't be a problem. That leaves me wondering "why not just use a JS memory-hard routine in the first place, but maybe I've shouted over that too. I'll give TFA a reread later.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
by trickypr on Monday September 07, 2026 @12:50AM
(#49594012)
I think it is still compute-heavy if not compute-hard, and stuff like WASM SIMD makes it less compute heavy (not really available in JS). And also, for memory bound problems, you probably don't want the JS GC needing to clean up afterwards when WASM gives you that control.