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WebAssembly (WASM) arch support for the Linux kernel

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245 points marcodiego | 5 comments | 01 Nov 25 16:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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iberator ◴[03 Nov 25 14:36 UTC] No.45799414[source]▶
What's the point ?! It's insane. Who on earth would use that?
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1. afavour ◴[03 Nov 25 14:37 UTC] No.45799438[source]▶
I don’t think it’s that big a stretch of the imagination to see how this could be used in smaller pieces than the entirety of Linux.
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2. trollbridge ◴[03 Nov 25 18:21 UTC] No.45802365[source]▶
Yeah. Basically any code you can run on Linux you can now run on a browser with a lot less work.
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3. lxgr ◴[03 Nov 25 21:16 UTC] No.45804556[source]▶
Realistically, with quite a bit more work (compared to e.g. v86), but at much higher performance.
4. kbelder ◴[03 Nov 25 22:22 UTC] No.45805167[source]▶
Like Lynx?
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5. VladVladikoff ◴[04 Nov 25 05:07 UTC] No.45807594{3}[source]▶
Yo dog