• @FizzyOrange
    3•15 days ago

    Honestly twice as slow as CPython is probably quite an achievement. Even so I can’t imagine many people can tolerate their code running that slow. I’m not really seeing the use case for this. On the web you can use Typescript, which is a better language and far more mature for that use case.

    • @[email protected]
      3•15 days ago

      It looks like it’s 3x faster than the previous cpython wasm compilation. Recall that most of the performance improvements in python have been done in the last ~2 releases.

      My distro is debian based so it’s still on 3.10 which I would guess this new wasm implementation is much closer to in performance.

      Compiling to wasm also means that you can distribute a binary rather than needing people to have python installed.

      • Dark ArcEnglish
        1•15 days ago

        Compiling to wasm also means that you can distribute a binary rather than needing people to have python installed.

        I don’t know that I’d say that’s true? wasm itself is not a binary format.