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by IainIreland 930 days ago
We do streaming baseline compilation as fast as the network can hand us bytes, but we also kick off a more optimized compilation in a background thread.

A lot of optimizations can be baked into the generated wasm, but you still need to spend some time doing eg register allocation.
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kouteiheika 930 days ago
> A lot of optimizations can be baked into the generated wasm, but you still need to spend some time doing eg register allocation.

Such a shame WASM is a stack machine. If it wasn't we could have had fast, singlepass compilation with near native performance without any complex optimizing recompilers or multi level JITs.

(This is not speculation. I actually wrote a VM which executes code as fast as wasmtime but compiles 160 times faster and guarantees O(n) compilation.)

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disintegore 929 days ago
Interesting. Would the differences in binary sizes be prohibitive for use on the internet?
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kouteiheika 929 days ago
> Would the differences in binary sizes be prohibitive for use on the internet?

No. They are competitive. For one of my benchmarks I get a WASM blob that is 90KB, and for my VM I get 76KB. (Both are stripped of any debug info.)

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