It'd be interesting to see a benchmark for what the total overhead is for Rust->WASM->Chicory AoT->native-image versus native Rust; I've been pleasantly surprised by the JVM in the past, so I'd hope it'd be a relatively small hit.
Even in interpreter mode, rust wasm programs seem very fast for me on Chicory. I'm not sure if we have any specific benchmarks but the graal team did some and i think it's based on a rust guest program https://chicory.dev/blog/chicory-1.0.0/#the-race-day
ahaha, that's intriguing!
I think there are still some gaps but we are comparing results(with GraalWasm) on Photon here: https://github.com/shaunsmith/wasm-bench
Should be easy to build a native image and compare!