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by mort96 12 days ago
The issue then is that instead of just bundling a tiny 1MB sqlite library with your program, you have to bundle a huge WASM runtime. I looked at the size of wasm on my system just to get an idea and it's 46MB; that's huge.

For context, I have a game I'm working on where I build stand-alone builds with all dependencies bundled. The app bundle is 14MB right now. If I added sqlite, it would grow to 15MB. If I added sqlite-but-with-wasm, it'd more than quadruple in size to 60MB.

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Ugh I can't edit now but just noticed I should've said I looked at the size of wasmtime, not "the size of wasm".