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Wasm capabilities for server side enable you to have alternatives to K8s like Cloudflare workers that are far superior in performance and much simpler from a de
by ridruejo 5y ago
Wasm capabilities for server side enable you to have alternatives to K8s like Cloudflare workers that are far superior in performance and much simpler from a developer perspective. They are suitable for niche use cases right now, but I can see a future where they can run more general workloads without the added complexity. That's why people keep talking about Wasm and part of what's exciting about it
- Thaxll 5y agoWASM will never be faster because it has a runtime, the only thing that can be quicker is the startup of the application which is less relevant for regular API servers etc ... WASM is interesting client side, service side beside very simple use case like resize my image it's not very good imo
- smasher164 5y ago1. WASM doesn't require a runtime. You can perform AOT compilation on it and still get the benefits of sandboxing. 2. Even under interpretation, WASM doesn't require the interpreter to jump through hoops or optimization to get it to be performant. In this sense, it's more of a portable assembly format than something like LLVM IR.
- pjmlp 5y agoBytecode as executable format goes back to the early 60's. Plenty of platforms would AOT compile it before execution or at installation time (like IBM/Unisys mainframes and microcomputers).
- pjmlp 5y agoEAR files, just saying.