rabin-wasm
iswasmfast
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rabin-wasm
iswasmfast
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Pay Attention to WebAssembly
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.
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Node.js 16 Available Now
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
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Is WebAssembly magic performance pixie dust?
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?
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.
friendly-pow - The PoW challenge library used by Friendly Captcha
human-asmjs - Tips and tricks for writing asm.js as a human - Note: WebAssembly has replaced asm.js, so this is no longer maintained.
dodrio - A fast, bump-allocated virtual DOM library for Rust and WebAssembly.
proposals - Tracking WebAssembly proposals
design - WebAssembly Design Documents
scope_guard - A modern C++ scope guard that is easy to use but hard to misuse.