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I really don't know what problem(s) this solves. Don't all the javascript runtimes already have wasm engines built into the runtimes?

• flohofwoe 2y ago
  You don't need to carry around a whole Javascript engine when all you want is running some WASM/WASI code. Granted, the real-world differences aren't all that big: - wasmer: single 45 MByte exe - wasmtime: single 28 MByte exe - node.js: 87 MByte, lots of individual files - deno: 186 MByte over two executables (deno and denort not sure what denort is though) As an extreme outlier, there's wasm3 which is a WASI interpreter and which is just a single 255 KB executable (not a typo). All sizes looked up on an ARM Mac.
  • mike_r_parsons 2y ago
    Is this (size) an issue in the real world?
    • Nab443 2y ago
      It depends what real world is for you. In embedded or with low bandwith it might.
    • flohofwoe 2y ago
      On desktop and server machines probably not. But more code also means a bigger attack surface.