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by tadlan 3743 days ago
Question please: Even though there is stated desire to support python etc vm, this will be hampered by the need for the client to download the large VM vs native code that can be distributed itself, correct?
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Correct, though we're working on dynamic linking to ease the pain, and improving compilers such as LLVM so that the generated code is smaller.
Thanks. I'm not familiar with dynamic linking. What will that do?
There's a response above this one from titzer describing it, or you can read more here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/DynamicLin...