Build your own WebAssembly Compiler

1. wasm-micro-runtime

   1 23 5,291 9.6 C

   WebAssembly Micro Runtime (WAMR)

   

   Here is what you are looking for: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasm-micro-runtime

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3. w2c2

   2 9 749 7.4 C

   Translates WebAssembly modules to portable C

   

   For AOT, the simplest approach, that actually produces the fastest native code, is to naively translate WASM opcodes to C.

   This is for example what W2C2 does: https://github.com/turbolent/w2c2

4. design

   3 57 11,485 6.1

   WebAssembly Design Documents

   

   As far as I can tell (5 minutes of internet research) this was to allow easier compilation to JavaScript as a fallback in the days when WASM wasn't widely supported.

   "Please add goto" issue has been open since 2016:

   https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/796

   Most interesting comment:

   > The upcoming Go 1.11 release will have experimental support for WebAssembly. This will include full support for all of Go's features, including goroutines, channels, etc. However, the performance of the generated WebAssembly is currently not that good.

   > This is mainly because of the missing goto instruction. Without the goto instruction we had to resort to using a toplevel loop and jump table in every function. Using the relooper algorithm is not an option for us, because when switching between goroutines we need to be able to resume execution at different points of a function. The relooper can not help with this, only a goto instruction can.

   > It is awesome that WebAssembly got to the point where it can support a language like Go. But to be truly the assembly of the web, WebAssembly should be equally powerful as other assembly languages. Go has an advanced compiler which is able to emit very efficient assembly for a number of other platforms. This is why I would like to argue that it is mainly a limitation of WebAssembly and not of the Go compiler that it is not possible to also use this compiler to emit efficient assembly for the web.

   ^ https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/796#issuecommen...

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