Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

What I'd prefer to see in a demo is running compiled code of other languages (e.g. Haskell, C++, Python, Rust, Go) in WASM, and comparing performance.

Also interesting would be to run other virtual machines (JVM) inside WASM, and see what the performance is.

Also interesting: compiling Firefox into WASM, and running it on Chrome (or the other way around) :)

Further, I'd like to see a good test of multithreaded/shared memory performance.




You can transpile this demo to C++ with IL2CPP. It's built into Unity for iOS/Android platforms, never tried to do it on desktop, but I think it must be possible.


I forgot two:

Compiling Linux to WASM (yes I know it has been done for single-threaded Javascript, but it would be interesting to know how this would perform on WASM, with threads).

And compiling VirtualBox to WASM would also be cool. If only as a performance indicator.




Consider applying for YC's Fall 2025 batch! Applications are open till Aug 4

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: