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Willian Martins
October 17, 2017
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WebAssembly in NodeJS
My presentation about WASM in NodeJS @ NodeJS Meetup Berlin
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The Need for Speed and WebAssembly Willian Martins Autumn 2017
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Timeline…
How did we achieve it Moore law Pushed Tech industries
to evolve until today Allowed huge computation power even on small devices
All this power for what? Faster applications More immersive games
Virtual reality Augmented reality Live video/image processing Big Data/Machine learning
The languages over time
But what about JS?
JS - Early days Created in 1995 by Brendan Eich
Was written in 11 days Designed to be easy and simple Designed to be a glue code for dynamic Web
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JS - 2008 until now 2008 - JIT Compiler by
google w/ Chrome Jump of performance Allowed more complex applications What is the next step?
Willian Elia @wmsbill
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WE’RE HIRING!!
What is WebAssembly?
What’s WebAssembly? New binary format Run compiled programs (C, C++,
Rust) on a browser Works alongside Javascript Performance and flexibility API
Why WebAssembly is faster?
V8 - JiT in action
V8 - JiT in action
V8 - JiT in action
V8 - JiT in action
V8 - JiT in action
V8 - JiT in action
V8 - JiT in action
JiT: Code life cycle in summary 1. Parse 2. Compile
3. Optimize (de-optimize) 4. Execute 5. Garbage Collector
WebAssembly
WebAssembly is fast Parse Compile Optimize Execute GC Decode Compile
+ Optimize Execute JS WASM
WebAssembly is fast WASM is more compact -> Faster FETCH
of the source WASM is closer to machine code -> Faster DECODING, COMPILING and OPTIMISING No need to RE-OPTIMISE No garbage collection
So WebAssembly looks fast, let’s see how to use it
How to run WASM modules Current situation: not possible to
run WASM modules on their own Need for some Javascript glue
WebAssembly JS API 1. Fetch/Load the module binary 2. Instantiate
it 3. Access exported functionalities
fs.readFile(‘./module.wasm’, async function(err, file) => { const { instance }
= await WebAssembly.instantiate(file); // Do something with the compiled results! });
How to generate a WASM file
Compile C to WASM + JS WASM emcc my-module.c -o
my-module.js -s WASM=1
Then we can simply import the generated JS code as
a module
Export functions to JS Keyword EMSCRIPTEN_KEEPALIVE EMSCRIPTEN_KEEPALIVE int sum(int x,
int y) { return x + y; } Expose only the interface of the WASM module to JS
What about WebAssembly memory? How can we access it?
Memory management Emscripten provide three useful functions to manage WebAssembly
memory _malloc(memoryNeeded) getValue(ptr, type) setValue(ptr, value, type)
Elia @eliamain
DEMO TIME
The WASM implementation was still slower
Why??
JIT handover
“Currently, calling a WebAssembly function in JS code is slower
than it needs to be. The JIT doesn’t know how to deal directly with WebAssembly, so it has to route the WebAssembly to something that does. … This can be up to 100x slower than it would be if the JIT knew how to handle it directly. ” Lin Clark
The future of WebAssembly
Future features Formal Specification Threads supports SIMD acronym to Single
Instruction Multiple Data (back to Stage 3 on TC39) Exception handling Garbage collection Direct DOM access ES6 Module integration
Danke! Thank you!
What about Native modules?