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I was reading a research paper who benchmarked some wasm compilers and the fastest was converting wasm back to c and recompiling it again!


Can you recall the link?


see w2c2 in this paper

https://www.opencloudification.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/0...

Tho I have mis-remembered it. They transpile wasm back to C and compile that to a native binary.


w2c2 has only 2 mentions. wasm2c is not a clear winner, it's specifically losing several of their benchmarks.

In general, using a preexisting compiler as a JIT backend is an old hack, there's nothing new there. It's just another JIT/AoT backend. For example, databases have done query compilation for probably decades by now.




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