9 comments

  • ahartmetz 7 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 an 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.

    • tmpz22 an hour ago

      Yeah Claude did great here this should really help them with job interviews.

      • koolala an hour ago

        What are you basing this statement on? The code comments read very human to me. Your the one hurting their chances of finding a job by falsely saying this.

      • simonw 27 minutes ago

        I'd hire an undergraduate who can produce this level of work with Claude.

      • godwinson__4-8 an hour ago

        Every company they apply to will be leveraging LLMs. Time to get over it. No need to be grumpy old man about such things. Every generation has faced such foes. The old always yields to the new.

        For the times they are a-changin'

  • milch an hour ago

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

  • iberator an hour 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 32 minutes ago

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