WebAssembly: Of Portability, and Performance - Deepti Gandluri, Google

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Channel: node.js · 2018 · Science & Technology

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WebAssembly is a portable binary instruction format, it is an emerging standard being developed in the WebAssembly community group. Support for WebAssembly has now shipped in major browsers, and is enabled by default in Node.js 8. Though WebAssembly is designed to run on the web, it is also desirable that it executes well in JavaScript VMs like Node.js. Let's talk about where WebAssembly is now, some practical use cases, and what is in store for the future.

Deepti Gandluri
Google
Software Engineer

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