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WASM matter?

on YouTube 30m
Talkat PyCon AU 2019 · 2019-08-02..08-06· [webassembly, web-platform]

speaker

name:Russell Keith-Magee
website:http://cecinestpasun.com/

resources

video:https://youtu.be/eJMT1aImS9Q
slides:none on file

summary

WASM is a compact binary format that ships pre-parsed code so browsers start faster and JITs get exact types: a hand‑made add compiles to 41‑byte example.wasm, EMCC + optimizations produce ~165 bytes of wasm and kilobytes of glue, and full interpreters compile to megabytes — Pyodide ≈3–12MB while a MicroPython build sits under 1MB. Tooling includes the web assembly binary toolkit and C/rust backends; real apps like QuakeJS run in-browser after a minute download, and image codecs are reused via wasm for big speedups.

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chapters (12)

  1. 0:00Start
  2. 5:47Just-In-Time compilation
  3. 10:20WAT: WebAssembly Text
  4. 11:42Deploying WASM
  5. 12:42The WASM command set
  6. 13:58A WASM Module
  7. 15:28Using emscripten
  8. 16:20Deploying an emscripten module
  9. 17:20Optimizing emscripten
  10. 18:02Strings with emscripten
  11. 18:30Interacting with Javascript
  12. 19:23Emscripten extras

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