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What are the biggest advantages of WebAssembly?

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Panel answer: the ability to run code after loading just the first bytes of a module — streaming compilation — plus tree-shakable modules that load only the code pages actually need, yielding a huge performance boost at runtime. Illustrated by the LinkedIn case study: Yehuda Katz rewrote Ember's Glimmer engine in Rust, compiled it to WebAssembly, and measured 0.3–0.5× better initial load time vs the Preact-based rewrite.

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Streaming compilation + tree-shakable modules = large initial-load performance gains, as shown by the LinkedIn/Glimmer/Rust experiment.
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