How Webassembly Will Change the Way You Write Javascript
summary
Demos compile asm.js/C/rust down to a shared AST/wasm binary (look for the header \0asm), load it in Node via instantiateModule + Uint8Array and export it as a normal JS module. An add function matches JS speed but a recursive Fibonacci shows ~2x speed on fib(24+). Tooling requires specific compiler git commits to match V8 (Node v7 / V8 5.4) and is unstable — the demos run but this is not yet production-ready.
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