Re: GWT for a Java to WASM compiler

I think the advantages come from transpiling languages other than JS to WASM (in their examples, Kotlin and Dart).  Eg: An integer in Java, will still be in integer in WASM, while when you ask GWT for an integer, it has to do a bunch of magic, as JS doesn't have integers.

On Sunday, 14 May 2023 at 9:50:58 pm UTC+10 lofid...@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks for the info. A very good explanation in that video.

But still don't understand why would this solution with WASM GC 2x faster than the "pure transpiling" solution? The latter is completely in JS and uses the GC from JS as it is.

Does this means using JS with WASM will be 2x faster than the pure JS??? 🤣

Thanks 

Lofi

Craig Mitchell schrieb am Freitag, 12. Mai 2023 um 12:27:43 UTC+2:

At Google I/O 2023, they showed that WASM (Web Assembly) is finally getting garbage collection (as well as shared memory).

https://developers.googleblog.com/2023/05/bringing-kotlin-to-web.html

https://youtu.be/RcHER-3gFXI?t=604

They showed that JetBrains was experimenting with Kotlin compiling to WASM.

There wasn't any mention of anyone doing Java compilation to WASM.

I wonder how hard it would be to modify GWT to compile to WASM.  Possible?  Thoughts?

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