Wasmer Features
The Wasmer WebAssembly runtime provides various features for users and developers:
Backends: Wasmer supports multiple compiler backends: Singlepass, Cranelift and LLVM. Each of these have different tradeoffs of compilation speed vs runtime speed;
Caching: compiled WebAssembly modules can be reused so subsequent runs of a Wasm file will have very little start up time;
Metering: computation time and other resources can be monitored and limits set to control how the Wasm code runs. This is also known as "gas metering";
WebAssembly Features:
Multi-value return: return multiple values from functions making data transfer between host and guest simpler;
SIMD: Single Instruction, Multiple data: do heavy number crunching more quickly and/or with lower power usage.
ABIs: it allows running different types of programs compiled to WebAssembly, with ABIs such as:
Emscripten
WASI
Support of features by Backend
Singlepass
Cranelift
LLVM
Caching
β
β
β
Emscripten
β
β
β
Metering
β
β
β
Multi-value return
β
β
β
SIMD
β¬
β¬
β
WASI
β
β
β
WASMER_BACKTRACE
β
β¬
β¬
Support by Operating System
GNU Linux
Mac OSX
Windows NT
Cranelift Backend
β
β
β
LLVM Backend
β
β
β
WASI
β
β
β *
poll_fd
is not fully implemented for Windows yet
Language integration
TODO: define a set of features that are relevant and mark them here
Current ideas:
Callbacks
Metering
Caching
TODO: expand this table, it's focused on new features that we haven't implemented yet and doesn't list all language integrations
Rust
C / C++
Go
Python
Ruby
Terminate in host call
β
β¬
β¬
β¬
β¬
WASI
β
β
π
β¬
β¬
WASI FS API
β
β¬
β¬
β¬
β¬
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