WebAssembly Runtimes

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

The posts Benchmark of WebAssembly runtimes - 2021 Q1 and WebAssembly runtimes compared have benchmarks and comparisons of different WASI runtimes.

wasmer¶

wasmer

lucet¶

Lucet is a native WebAssembly compiler and runtime. It is designed to safely execute untrusted WebAssembly programs inside your application.

wasmtime¶

wasmtime

WasmEdge¶

WasmEdge Runtime is a high-performance, extensible, and hardware optimized WebAssembly Virtual Machine for automotive, cloud, AI, and blockchain applications.

TWINE: An Embedded Trusted Runtime for WebAssembly¶

TWINE: An Embedded Trusted Runtime for WebAssembly

References¶

How WASI Makes Containerization More Efficient
adlrocha - Can WASM become the new Docker?
Not So Fast: Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code
The lifecycle and performance of a Lucet instance