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by swannodette 236 days ago
Loading 50mb of WASM is a big tradeoff just to run code on a website.
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Loading time is pretty rough, but it seems responsive enough after the initial load. Probably as fast or faster than downloading and installing GHC locally.
For comparison: the homepage of cnn.com right now is 33.37MB on my machine. 16.82MB of which is JavaScript.
I would assume that in the near future one can preload, cache, update selected WASM packages. I also imagine that sooner than that we can preload open models in the browser to run the natively instead of only invoking third parties (e.g. window.ai in the DOM)