ascheidecker

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   by ascheidecker 9y ago

   It would be possible to leverage a simple machine code verifier similar to NaCl's in a WebAssembly backend. Nobody does it right now, but there's been some work on taking WebAssembly as input to their Subzero PNaCl->NaCl compil
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   by ascheidecker 10y ago

   Another factor is that these consumer Optane products only have 1 or 2 chips to multiplex operations across. Their enterprise product, the SSD DC P4800X uses 28 of the same 16GB chips and can read or write at ~2GB/s which is competitiv
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   by ascheidecker 10y ago

   Not exactly. Node.js will probably integrate a future release of V8 that supports WebAssembly, and WAVM isn't a suitable replacement for that. WAVM is more like V8, but for WebAssembly only instead of both JavaScript and WebAssembly. T
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   by ascheidecker 10y ago

   (author of WAVM here) WebAssembly definitely benefits from being able to avoid the JavaScript garbage collector. I'm working on a garbage collected language that will use WebAssembly/WAVM as that backend. It's possible as-is,