Bringing WebAssembly up to speed with dynamic linking

Mäkitalo, Niko; Bankowski, Victor Ludvig Mathias; Daubaris, Paulius; Mikkola, R.; Beletski, Oleg; Mikkonen, Tommi

doi:10.1145/3412841.3442045

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“…Another study [108] explored the use of Wasm beyond the browser environment. Wasm is a relatively new technology designed to provide a compilation target for numerous programming languages, with the aim of deploying both client and server applications on the web.…”

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“…Migration and Portability: [108,109,115] highlight the need for more research into the migration and portability of Wasm applications. There is a need for frameworks or solutions that allow Wasm applications to be dynamically deployed, migrated, or partitioned without changing their form while working across different operating systems and hardware architectures.…”

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“…Generalization of Deployments: multiple works [108,112] suggest a need for broader application of Wasm outside browser environments and across different hardware devices and software environments. This indicates a gap in how Wasm can be generalized and deployed beyond the specific use cases studied to date.…”

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An Overview of WebAssembly for IoT: Background, Tools, State-of-the-Art, Challenges, and Future Directions

Ray

2023

Future Internet

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This paper explores the relationship between two emerging technologies, WebAssembly (Wasm) and the Internet of Things (IoT). It examines the complementary roles of these technologies and their impact on modern web applications. First, it delves into the capabilities of Wasm as a high-performance binary format that allows developers to leverage low-level languages for computationally intensive tasks. Second, it seeks to explain why integration of IoT and Wasm is important. Third, it discusses the strengths and limitations of various tools and tool chains that are crucial for Wasm development and implementation, with a special focus on IoT. Fourth, it presents the state-of-the-art with regard to advances that combine both technologies. Fifth, it discusses key challenges and provides future directions. Lastly, it provides an in-depth elaboration of the future aspects of Wasm, with a strong focus on IoT, concluding that IoT and Wasm can provide developers with a versatile toolkit that enables them to balance productivity and performance in both web and non-web development scenarios. The collaborative use of these technologies opens up new possibilities for pushing the boundaries of web application development in terms of interactivity, security, portability, scalability, and efficient computational capabilities. As web and non-web embeddings continue to evolve, the integration of IoT and Wasm will play a crucial role in shaping the future of innovative application development. The key findings of this extensive review work suggest that existing tool sets can be easily conglomerated together to form a new era in WebAssembly–IoT infrastructure for low-power, energy-efficient, and secure edge–IoT ecosystems with near-native execution speed. Furthermore, the expansion of edge–IoT ecosystems can be augmented with prospective cloud-side deployments. However, there remains a strong need to more cohesively advance the amalgamation of Wasm and IoT technologies in the near future.

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An Overview of WebAssembly for IoT: Background, Tools, State-of-the-Art, Challenges, and Future Directions

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2023

Future Internet

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“…Given the more widespread adoption of Wasm, researchers have been studying it increasingly, such as its binary security [32], on hardening Wasm against Spectre attacks [33], and how to speed it up with Dynamic Linking [34].…”

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WebAssembly versus JavaScript: Energy and Runtime Performance

Macedo

Abreu²,

Pereira

et al. 2022

2022 International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S)

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The worldwide Web has dramatically evolved in recent years. Web pages are dynamic, expressed by programs written in common programming languages given rise to sophisticated Web applications. Thus, Web browsers are almost operating systems, having to interpret/compile such programs and execute them. Although JavaScript is widely used to express dynamic Web pages, it has several shortcomings and performance inefficiencies. To overcome such limitations, major IT powerhouses are developing a new portable and size/load efficient language: WebAssembly.In this paper, we conduct the first systematic study on the energy and run-time performance of WebAssembly and JavaScript on the Web. We used micro-benchmarks and also real applications in order to have more realistic results. Preliminary results show that WebAssembly, while still in its infancy, is starting to already outperform JavaScript, with much more room to grow. A statistical analysis indicates that WebAssembly produces significant performance differences compared to JavaScript. However, these differences differ between micro-benchmarks and real-world benchmarks. Our results also show that WebAssembly improved energy efficiency by 30%, on average, and showed how different WebAssembly behaviour is among three popular Web Browsers: Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox. Our findings indicate that WebAssembly is faster than JavaScript and even more energy-efficient. Additionally, our benchmarking framework is also available to allow further research and replication.

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WebAssembly Modules as Lightweight Containers for Liquid IoT Applications

Mäkitalo

Mikkonen

Pautasso

et al. 2021

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Going all the way to IoT with web technologies opens up the door to isomorphic IoT system architectures, which deliver flexible deployment and live migration of code between any device in the overall system. In this vision paper, we propose using WebAssembly to implement lightweight containers and deliver the required portability. Our long-term vision is to use the technology to support developers of liquid IoT applications offering seamless, hassle-free use of multiple devices.

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Bringing WebAssembly up to speed with dynamic linking

Cited by 8 publications

References 16 publications

An Overview of WebAssembly for IoT: Background, Tools, State-of-the-Art, Challenges, and Future Directions

An Overview of WebAssembly for IoT: Background, Tools, State-of-the-Art, Challenges, and Future Directions

WebAssembly versus JavaScript: Energy and Runtime Performance

WebAssembly Modules as Lightweight Containers for Liquid IoT Applications

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