WebAssembly compression and allocation benchmarks
After many long years, the Memory64 proposal for WebAssembly has finally been released in both Firefox 134 and Chrome 133. In short, this proposal adds 64-bit pointers to WebAssembly.
WebAssembly compression and allocation benchmarks
Explore the 2024-2025 State of WebAssembly as Gerard Gallant covers advancements in WASI, toolchain improvements, multi-language support, and the future of WebAssembly in server-side applications and beyond.
A comprehensive look at WebAssembly in 2025 and 2026, covering browser support, Safari updates, WebAssembly 3.0, WASI, .NET, Kotlin, debugging improvements, and growing adoption across edge computing and embedded devices.
Background:
Journey through WebAssembly’s architectural quirk: 32-bit addressing with 64-bit operations.How does this impact SWAR techniques to turn this unusual combination into a performance advantage? Let’s benchmark this bit wizardry in a whitespace skipping scenario!