[maga]

You do realize that I didn't put up those benchmarks and wrote the article way back in 2017 just so that I can pick on a passage in this article? I was (and still am to a degree) excited about WASM, actually ported a significant chunk of my business logic from JS to C++ only to discover that the whole thing offered only ~20% performance boost, which didn't merit maintaining a whole separate toolchain. I'm not questioning the exciting results that Figma and such achieve, I'm saying that it's not "almost always" a case, and it's disingenuous to present it as such.

[peterth3]

I’m just noticing that my comment went from 5 points to 0 after your reply. I’m sorry if it was upsetting. Of course I know you are not the author of the benchmarks repo.

I made that comment in good faith pointing out that the author was not saying WASM is a catch all performance booster.

But I could get on board with your claim here that “almost always” is disingenuous (which wasn’t what you were saying in the previous comment).