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Alternatively: run native code at least 5% slower than before.
by microcolonel 7y ago
Alternatively: run native code at least 5% slower than before.
- politician 7y agoBefore or after turning off Hyper Threading and speculative execution on your Intel microprocessor? (The point being that 5% slowdown is a drop in the bucket compared to what we've already lost due to Intel's chip design problems. AIUI, HT is a 15-20% slowdown, and SE was another 20% slowdown.)
- imtringued 7y agoBut now you can in theory run your programs on <strange underused architecture> that doesn't suffer from those vulnerabilities thanks to the power of WASM.
- politician 7y ago> on <strange underused architecture> Did the Mill CPU finally get first silicon? ;)
- ziftface 7y agoLike the article said, in practice the WebAssembly can actually be faster, because it can use all the optimizations for the target machine.