I think the large difference here is that the VM for WASM is much thinner. Java was not then and still isn't today the fastest of languages. I think WASM's mod

I think the large difference here is that the VM for WASM is much thinner. Java was not then and still isn't today the fastest of languages. I think WASM's model of being a lower level VM is going to produce fantastic results. Heck I "ported" Lua to WASM[1] and it was pretty snappy compared to what I was expecting. [1] https://github.com/vvanders/wasm_lua https://github.com/vvanders/wasm_lua