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    Comment #34311086

    The benchmarks were run on MacOS, and actually execute an interrupt for debugging, MacOS then checks if the process is being debugged. Wasm3 just exit(1) and prints a message. And …

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    Comment #34310517

    I made Web49 because there are not many good tools for WebAssembly out there. WABT is close, but the interpreter is too slow and the tools megabytes in size each. Wasm3 is a bit fa…

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    Comment #34219826

    The interview in question, for those interested: https://odin-lang.org/news/newsletter-2022-12/#interview-wit...

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    Comment #29853736

    I have looked into Meta Machines. They are not what I want. Meta Machines can be almost as fast, but i just prefer the cache locality of local functions. Wasm3 is slower than MiniV…

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    Comment #29851774

    There is no roadmap. There are no written long term goals. This project came out of need for a faster virtual machine for my Paka language. There is an api to emit vm bytecode, but…

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    Comment #29851596

    MiniVM uses coroutines already, every 1000 branches the vm will return to the scheduler. The Build system can accept CFLAGS+=-DVM_BRANCH_DEFER which makes MiniVM able to run part o…

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    Comment #29850854

    Author here, Tail calls can be implemented in MiniVM bytecode. There was once an instruction that performed a tail call, It bit-rotted due to not being used. MiniVM is moving very …

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    Comment #29850823

    Thank you for having a look. The reason MiniVM is so benchmark-oriented in its presentation is that MiniVM is ver benchmark-oriented in my workflow. I have tried to find a faster i…

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    Comment #29850791

    MiniVM will JIT eventually. Right now the biggest barrier is the VM snapshots. Currently MiniVM its own stack and heap and can snapshot them from any point in the program. One thin…