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		jasonjmcghee on April 22, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Parquet-WASM: Rust-based WebAssembly bindings to r... Seeing as the popular alternative here would be DuckDB-WASM, which (last time I checked) is on the order of 50MB, this is comparatively super lightweight.

leeoniya on April 22, 2024 [–]

i think duckdb-wasm is closer to 6MB over wire, but ~36MB once decompressed. (see net panel when loading https://shell.duckdb.org/)

the decompressed size should be okay since it's not the same as parsing and JITing 36MB of JS.

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