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by cogman10 1327 days ago
I think what's missing is why you'd want to do that.

If I have a rust app on a scratch image, why would I want to turn it into a wasm container?

My assumption is because wasm can run on multiple platforms (x86 and arm) so one image supports both, is that correct? Are there other reasons not as obvious?
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timanglade 1327 days ago
Assuming you had code that somehow could either be packaged as a linux container, or as a Wasm binary, then the advantage of the latter would be that yes Wasm supports multiple CPU architectures out of the box, it also consumes less resources (memory, etc.), will usually have faster start times, and the Wasm security sandboxing is stronger.
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cogman10 1326 days ago
> it also consumes less resources (memory, etc.)

Really? I would not have expected that. Is that just under the assumption that most apps have an underlying OS (like alpine) and aren't on a scratch container?

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