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I know little about JVM, but I've gathered that WASM cold starts are far quicker because WASM can be incrementally compiled* as bytes are streamed into edge ser
by jadbox 3y ago
I know little about JVM, but I've gathered that WASM cold starts are far quicker because WASM can be incrementally compiled* as bytes are streamed into edge services. Cold start time is king when almost every user is using a different edge location.
* https://stackoverflow.com/a/58134568 https://stackoverflow.com/a/58134568
- kaba0 3y agoJava class files are very small, and also support streamed loading.
- sanderjd 3y agoThis was a very enlightening thread. My takeaway is: It actually is a similar approach to the jvm, but cold starts faster, whether because of differing design and implementation choices explicitly made to achieve this, or just because it ended up working out that way. But in either case, "a bytecode for a JIT-compiling runtime that cold starts very quickly", does indeed sound very useful for edge computing. Thanks!