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by berkes 1123 days ago
I understood that Drupal/php is compiled to WASM and then run on a WASM runtime.

So no WASM inside Drupal, but Drupal run as, and in WASM.
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angelmm 1123 days ago
Exactly. The Drupal code is unmodified and runs on top of the PHP interpreter compiled to Wasm [0]. The Drupal PHP code is not compiled to Wasm.

- [0] https://github.com/vmware-labs/webassembly-language-runtimes

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berkes 1121 days ago
Is that possible, though? To compile PHP to WASM seems possible¹, but not sure if Drupal can be compiled: drupal does (did? back when I did Drupal it certainly did. I certainly did) some really funky metaprogramming and eval() stuff. Like keeping PHP in the database.

¹https://github.com/wapm-packages/php

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