Practical WebAssembly

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WebAssembly is a low‑level binary that compiles C/C++/Rust into a tiny portable artifact (examples show ~15 KB blobs) and runs in every major browser and runtimes like Node 8. Tooling uses Emscripten/asm.js and the fetch + WebAssembly.instantiate flow. Real demos include Unity/Unreal games and DOSBox running in the browser successfully, and a webDSP filter drops from ~250 ms per frame to 60 frames a second. Replacing dozens of platform binaries (think libsass’s hundreds of megabytes) with a single wasm file is feasible today.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:35What is Mozilla
3. 1:29WebAssembly
4. 7:15Sass
5. 13:17Browser adoption
6. 14:43WebAssembly in the browser
7. 22:47Why do we need it
8. 28:19Questions
9. 31:14Hybrid Applications

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