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by jacobolus 2692 days ago
Speed when running in the browser is probably the main practical concern for most folks using wasm....
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Some projects are looking forward to using WASM as a general replacement for their current Turing-complete query language engine (e.g. Javascript in CouchDB, Lua in Redis, etc.) WAVM is probably what such systems would embed.
That and distribution of applications without having to provide the source, although currently you can of course minimize and compile the source, but still it's much more readable than an actual assembly -output.