WebAssembly performance patterns for web apps | Articles | web.dev
May 3, 2024
In this guide, aimed at web developers who want to benefit from WebAssembly, you’ll learn how to make use of Wasm to outsource CPU-intensive tasks with the help of a running example
Source: WebAssembly performance patterns for web apps | Articles | web.dev
Web Assembly has many uses–from full fledged applications (the core of Photoshop for the Web runs in Web Assembly for example), to internal apps used as part of a development workflow (at Code 23, Katie Bell talked about Web Assembly for building your own developer tools).
One use case it shines for is handling computational intensive tasks off the main thread to enhance performance that Thomas Steiener considered here.