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GCC? That's easy! :-) What about a complete system? https://webvm.io

Shameless plug: we are hosting a WebVM Hackathon next week (11-14 October) over Discord. For more information: https://cheerpx.io/hackathon

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What about something that doesn't even require WebAssembly and is faster? https://bellard.org/jslinux/

very unscientific benchmark of `clang hello.c`, after a few runs to make sure the code is downloaded/cached:

jslinux: 4.7s

wasmer: 1.3s

webvm: 1.2s

Nice, thanks for the benchmark Yuri!

It is a bit unfair to Wasmer, because it incur in the (presumed) overhead of `wasmer run ...`, but I could not figure out if the actual clang binary is directly available after it is downloaded the first time.

Can I compete with exaequOS?

No, the competition is explicitly based around CheerpX: an X86 virtualization technology built on top of WebAssembly

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