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With projects such as https://github.com/rianhunter/wasmjit https://github.com/rianhunter/wasmjit it looks like this talk is basically coming true. Not exactly
by kevincox 8y ago
With projects such as https://github.com/rianhunter/wasmjit https://github.com/rianhunter/wasmjit it looks like this talk is basically coming true.
Not exactly Javascript but running untrusted code in a safe language in the kernel can give already performance improvements for some workloads due to avoiding system call overhead. It will be interesting to see where this goes in the future.
- pjmlp 8y agoCatching up with 1961.
- earenndil 8y agoOh, to be sure, the technology will be there (and not unlikely make it into game console). I just struggle to see any other inlet for it. Not to mention that that benchmark is very synthetic and doesn't really reflect the kinds of speedups that will generally be found.