Not So Fast: Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code
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Abstract
All major web browsers now support WebAssembly, a low-level bytecode
intended to serve as a compilation target for code written in
languages like C and C++. A key goal of WebAssembly is performance
parity with native code; previous work reports near parity, with many applications
compiled to WebAssembly running on average 10%10\% slower than native
code. However, this evaluation was limited to a suite of scientific
kernels, each consisting of roughly 100 lines of code....
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