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Looks cool, I'm not much into webassembly... but I see just fews lines of Haskell code produced a gzipped wasm of 448K. How does this compares to other language

• kwertzzz 3y ago
  The uncompressed wasm binary for a simple fluid simulation in julia is 5k (or 2.7k compressed): https://alexander-barth.github.io/FluidSimDemo-WebAssembly/ https://alexander-barth.github.io/FluidSimDemo-WebAssembly/ But here the wasm code does only the number crunching. The visualization (and memory allocation) is all done in javascript.
• 3836293648 3y ago
  Remember that this includes the runtime. It'll hopefully shrink a bit once the wasm gc is stabilised
  • markdog12 3y ago
    It's already in Phase 4, so close: https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposals#phase-4---standardize-the-feature-wg https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposals#phase-4---standardi...
  • whateveracct 3y ago
    The RTS is a bit more than the GC though.
    • 3836293648 3y ago
      I said a bit, not go away entirely
    • samus 3y ago
      Does it really need a GC or is JavaScript engine's GC such a bad fit for Haskell?
      • whateveracct 3y ago
        I think it depends on how much of the GHC RTS semantics you wish to preserve.