WebAssembly

Jan
17
Making WebAssembly even faster: Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler

Making WebAssembly even faster: Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler

During this time period, Firefox had a major lead and just kept moving the goal posts in terms of WebAssembly
Jul
19
A robot wearing a WebAssembly T-shirt standing between an instruction manual of compiled code and a box of imports

WebAssembly modules, memories, and table imports series

In the early days, there was a lot of FUD about the memory access that WebAssembly provided. People thought that
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Jun
14
An encoder ring coding the letter "H" into the number 72 and storing it in memory.

Memory management, Shared ArrayBuffers, and Atomics series

Without the component model, WebAssembly requires a lot more direct sharing and manipulation of memory. This series was intended to
Feb
28
The logos of the four major browsers, holding hands in victory

A cartoon intro to WebAssembly series

This series was published just as browsers were beginning to turn WebAssembly on by default. It was the beginning of
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