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Doesn't GraalVM have both a WASM frontend and backend?

• grashalm 4y ago
  No, there is only a frontend. There is a JavaScript backend though. I hope the GC proposal for WASM ultimately goes through to enable a backend in WASM too.
  • chrisseaton 4y ago
    Maybe I saw a demo round-tripping through LLVM then.
  • frant-hartm 4y ago
    What does frontend and backend mean in this context? With graal you can - run wasm interpreted on OpenJDK, similar to javascript running interpreted in nashorn, or now graalvm, you just need to add couple of graal sdk jars to your dependencies - run wasm compiled, you need to run on GraalVM for this. This is supposed to provide around 50x speedup compared to previous point
    • chrisseaton 4y ago
      Frontend means can you take WASM code and feed it into Graal as input. Backend means can you get Graal to produce WASM code as output.