Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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This is pretty exciting if real: > Bytecode/opcodes are translated into more efficient "operations" during a compilation pass, generating pages of meta-machine code WASM compiled to a novel bytecode format aimed at efficient interpretation. > Commonly occurring sequences of operations can can also be optimized into a "fused" operation. Peephole optimizations producing fused opcodes, makes sense. > In M3/Wasm, the stack machine model is translated into a more direct and efficient "register file" approach WASM…
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 748
- Total comments
- 218
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-12 | Wasm3 – A high performance WebAssembly interpreter in CFirst breakout | sound_and_form | 186 | 76 |
| 2021-04-19 | Wasm3: The fastest WebAssembly interpreter, and the most universal runtime | brundolf | 3 | 0 |
| 2023-12-18 | Wasm3 entering a minimal maintenance phaseBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | padolsey | 559 | 142 |