human-asmjs VS iswasmfast

Compare human-asmjs vs iswasmfast and see what are their differences.

human-asmjs

Tips and tricks for writing asm.js as a human - Note: WebAssembly has replaced asm.js, so this is no longer maintained. (by zbjornson)

iswasmfast

Performance comparison of WebAssembly, C++ Addon, and native implementations of various algorithms in Node.js. (by zandaqo)
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human-asmjs

Posts with mentions or reviews of human-asmjs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-14.
  • Is WebAssembly magic performance pixie dust?
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Apr 2021
    One of my colleagues told me to stop doing that because in (I think) V8 these values are immediately converted back to a double nowadays. So annotating all code with |0 doesn't really add speed benefits there, just extra conversions between doubles and integers. Said colleague used to maintain human-asmjs so I trust he knows what he's talking about.

    [0] https://github.com/zbjornson/human-asmjs

iswasmfast

Posts with mentions or reviews of iswasmfast. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-31.
  • Pay Attention to WebAssembly
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Jan 2022
    At a glance, the bindings for wasm copy the data,

    https://github.com/zandaqo/iswasmfast/blob/54bbb7b539c127185...

    If the running code is short enough then that copy might easily make the wasm version much slower. That is indeed a known downside of wasm (calls to JS are somewhat slow, and copying of data even more so - wasm shines when you can avoid those things).

    If it's not that, then a 10x difference suggests you are running into some kind of a VM bug or limitation.

  • Node.js 16 Available Now
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Apr 2021
    WASM has its moments, as you can see in this[1] benchmark it outperforms JS and native addons on certain tasks.

    Since the bottleneck with native addons is usually data copying/marshalling, and we have direct access to WebAssembly memory from the JavaScript side, using WebAssembly on this "shared" memory might become the best approach for computationally heavy tasks. I wrote about it a bit here[2].

    [1] https://github.com/zandaqo/iswasmfast

  • Is WebAssembly magic performance pixie dust?
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Apr 2021
    A few years ago I did similar comparison but in context of Node.js and sans manual optimizations: https://github.com/zandaqo/iswasmfast

    In my work, I have come to conclusion that it seldom pays off to go "native" when working with Node.js. More often than not, rewriting some computationally heavy code in C and sticking it as a native module yielded marginally better results when compared with properly optimized js code. Though, that doesn't negate other advantages of using said technologies: predictable performance from the start and re-using existing code base.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing human-asmjs and iswasmfast you can also consider the following projects:

expresscpp - Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for C++ Perfect for building REST APIs

neon - Rust bindings for writing safe and fast native Node.js modules.

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