WebAssembly introduction

Parts, in publishing order

• 15 Jun 2020
  A quick introduction to WebAssembly, part 1: why it exists and how JavaScript runs

  What WebAssembly is, why JavaScript was slow, and how modern JavaScript engines parse, compile and optimize code.

  • Part 1
  • Research note
  • wasm
• 15 Jun 2020
  A quick introduction to WebAssembly, part 2: from asm.js to WebAssembly

  How asm.js made a subset of JavaScript fast, why it still fell short, and how that led to WebAssembly.

  • Part 2
  • Research note
  • wasm