Niko Mäkitalo
ABSTRACT
WebAssembly is a new technology that aims at portable compilation target for various programming languages. The goal is to support deployment on the web for client and server applications. While the technology itself is independent from the browser, majority of the implementations are browser-based, and hence the associated use cases are limited. In this paper, we study the use of WebAssembly outside the browser. In particular, we are interested in partitioning WebAssembly applications into modules and linking them during execution allowing reductions in memory consumption, binary size, and compilation and startup time.
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