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0 pointsSkiFire131y ago0 comments

This doesn't make sense, WASM is supposed to run on the client, which is generally a different machine than the webserver, while a context switch is an event that happens within a single machine.

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mlnj1y ago

WASM on the server also means that an execution engine that containerizes and runs server code in one of the many languages without the overhead of an entire OS like we do with containers now.

palmfacehn1y ago

From the article:

>Wasm on the Server

>Why on earth are we talking about Wasm? Isn't it for the browser?

>And I really hope even my mention of that question becomes dated, but I still hear this question quite often so it's worth talking about. Wasm was initially developed to run high performant code in the web browser.

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