Smashing Magazine | Lin Clark

There’s a lot of hype about WebAssembly in JavaScript circles today. People talk about how blazingly fast it is, and how it’s going to revolutionize web development. But most conversations don’t go into the details of why it’s fast. In this article, I want to help you understand what exactly it is about WebAssembly that makes it fast.

But first, what is it? WebAssembly is a way of taking code written in programming languages other than JavaScript and running that code in the browser.

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