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eole666 on Aug 7, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Snappy UIs with WebAssembly and Web Workers

Interesting article, but it's lacking a performance comparison between wasm and javascript running in workers.

JS can be largely fast enough for a lot of use cases: if I had some WebAssembly to a project I need a good reason to do so.

postalrat on Aug 7, 2023 [–]

https://takahirox.github.io/WebAssembly-benchmark/

JS can be faster in enough cases where it's worthwhile to test.

WASM is mostly being used for code that has already been written and is now being integrated into a web site. I wouldn't suggest jumping right to WASM simply for performance.

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