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		admax88q on April 14, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is WebAssembly magic performance pixie dust? I whipped up one here with a random comment dump from HN. It appears I'm no longer correct. https://gist.github.com/adamvy/afcace8cbdbe56995626f59f6ea2b... Load this as a script tag in an html file to run. Last time I benchmarked this it was true, but that was a number of years ago.

admax88q on April 14, 2021 [–]

Actually, fun fact, if you remove the clearing of the body, the HTML approach is faster.

At least in firefox here.

Benchmarking is difficult.

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