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by dikaiosune 2836 days ago
How is partial execution baked into JS? IIUC, my whole JS file is fully parsed an resolved before it is evaluated. If you're referring to the use of multiple files for parallelism here, then the obstacle there is not wasm itself but the work that's still in progress to define a dynamic linking story for it.

I'd point out that the need for better dynamic linking to enable lower TTI is also a problem faced in the bundling/tooling heavy JS community.
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slightlyoff 2836 days ago
JavaScript can be evaluated top-level function by top-level function and file-by-file, modulo variable hoisting. You can create situations where everything is blocked, but that's not the norm.
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dikaiosune 2836 days ago
Do you have numbers for how much of the web avoids variable hoisting? How much of the web has more than one top-level fn per file? Do these numbers shift significantly between different toolchains or methods of delivering JS?
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