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Loading 50mb of WASM is a big tradeoff just to run code on a website.
by swannodette 11mo ago
Loading 50mb of WASM is a big tradeoff just to run code on a website.
- tuveson 11mo agoLoading time is pretty rough, but it seems responsive enough after the initial load. Probably as fast or faster than downloading and installing GHC locally.
- wslh 11mo agoI would assume that in the near future one can preload, cache, update selected WASM packages. I also imagine that sooner than that we can preload open models in the browser to run the natively instead of only invoking third parties (e.g. window.ai in the DOM)
- extraduder_ire 11mo agoFor comparison: the homepage of cnn.com right now is 33.37MB on my machine. 16.82MB of which is JavaScript.