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WebAssembly (WASM) arch support for the Linux kernel

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245 points marcodiego | 3 comments | 01 Nov 25 16:39 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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shevy-java ◴[03 Nov 25 14:20 UTC] No.45799220[source]▶
Hopefully this will make WASM more popular. I tried to get into it but lack of documentation was already one reason to not invest too much; speed concerns mentioned by other bloggers also amplified this issue recently. For some reason WebAssembly is not really "breaking through" right now. Perhaps it is inertia, perhaps another reason.
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1. Ray20 ◴[03 Nov 25 15:20 UTC] No.45800014[source]▶
I hope so too. Websites that load runtimes for various programming languages are too slim; they need to load the entire operating system, otherwise why do we need all these powerful home computers?.
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2. charcircuit ◴[03 Nov 25 18:44 UTC] No.45802677[source]▶
There's already a problem of downloading 10s of megabytes of web assembly. We don't need to download gigabytes for a single page.
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3. cogman10 ◴[03 Nov 25 19:45 UTC] No.45803517[source]▶
Yes, but then how else could I run a docker container in the browser?