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by phibz 1222 days ago
The article asserts that javascript is interpreted and was is bytecompiled so its faster.

I think this ignores modern JIT based javascript engines like v8. They're very good at optimizing hot path javascript code as native code. WASM should be easier to optimize give the lack of variability and permissiveness in calls. BUt as far as I know, this hasn't been done yet for WASM so it runs more slowly than it could.