herobird

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   by herobird 2y ago

   Wasmi is an independent project nowadays. And you are right that it was originally designed for efficient smart contract execution but with a scope for more general use.
2. 32.▲
   by herobird 2y ago

   Thank you, that's a good summary of the article! Even faster startup times can be achieved by so-called in-place interpreters that do not even translate the Wasm binary at all and instead directly execute it without adjustments. Obviou
3. 33.▲
   by herobird 2y ago

   I was just told that I should state here that I am the author of the article, please ask me anything. :)
4. 34.▲
   by herobird 2y ago

   For startup performance Wasmi and Wasm3 are both the fastest engines according to the benchmarks. For execution performance you are right that generally JIT engines are expected to be faster than interpreter based Wasm engines. Also, as sta
5. 35.▲
   by herobird 2y ago

   I see that this sentence was a bit vague. What was meant that Wasmi as a Rust library mirrors the Wasmtime API that can be found here: https://docs.rs/wasmtime/21.0.1/wasmtime/ But yes, Wasmi also supports WA
6. 36.▲
   by herobird 2y ago

   yep, the title somehow got cut at the end :S
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   Wasmi v0.32: WebAssembly interpreter is now faster than ever(wasmi-labs.github.io)

   138 points by herobird 2y ago|39 comments