WATaBoy: JIT-Ing Game Boy Instructions to WASM Beats a Native Interpreter

eenergeticbark about 3 hours ago 8 commentsRead Article on humphri.es

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ahartmetz•30 minutes ago

Of course it beats a native interpreter. WASM overhead is about 20%, interpreter overhead is about 1000%.

What's cool here is to have a GameBoy JIT runtime at all.

dag100•about 1 hour ago

This is an incredible project for an undergraduate. Very impressive. Interesting to note that Firefox is 25% slower than Chrome/Safari, I wonder why.

milch•about 2 hours ago

Very interesting article. Would've been fun to see the comparison between native interpreter & JIT-on-WASM on iOS as well

iberator•about 2 hours ago

yet on real old hardware it would be 20x slower in real life. same as all native javascript junk - its fast, but non usuable on older hardware

switchbak•about 1 hour ago

Good thing I'm not running games on my 4gb Pentium 4 then.