As I understand it, wasm is not asm, but an AST format for the JS VM. You're essentially compiling your c, rust, whatever, directly into the same thing JS is co

As I understand it, wasm is not asm, but an AST format for the JS VM. You're essentially compiling your c, rust, whatever, directly into the same thing JS is compiled to on the fly. But you do it in advance, so no parse time needed. Also, no GC, so good luck getting Java code on there for now. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/02/what-makes-webassembly-fast/ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/02/what-makes-webassembly-fas...