[sgbeal]

> Are there any numbers on performance?

Tucked away in spreadsheets there are but we don't currently have any benchmarks in a publishable form. In broad strokes, i can assure you (as the one who performed the benchmarks) that the new sqlite wasm is competitive with WebSQL in terms of performance, with either one winning out in certain benchmarks. Given that WebSQL is implemented in native code and sqlite in wasmified C, we're quite happy with those results.

Note, however, that benchmarks are very browser-dependent. Firefox's wasm engine, for example, is significantly slower than Chrome's, but it's also more consistent. If you run a given test 10 times in FF, the difference in runtimes across them will be small (maybe 10%), whereas there will be a +/-50% difference in runtimes for the same tests in Chrome. In Chrome, if the dev tools are open when wasm is running, wasm's performance can (for unknown reasons) drop by as much as half or more even if the wasm code produces no output.

[exelib]

Thank you very much, that sounds great!