WASM: The `What`, `When` and `How`

I’ve been using WebAssembly aka WASM for a while in production to do some incredible stuff in the browser, things that would be prohibitive in terms of performance otherwise. Here are some real use-cases I’ve used WASM for: Running statistical processing 10 million rows (roughly 50 columns in each row) of CSV data in browser. This feature required us to create a temporary playground of reports generated for our clients where they could run their own analysis without the need of permanent storage or costly servers....

July 23, 2024 · 17 min · 3495 words · Anubhab