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Bootstrapping a Compiler via WASM with Loris Cro

Software Unscripted

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WebAssembly: A Form of Compression for C Code

WebAssembly is a form of compression for the C code that's more efficient than just running Z lib over the source files. The WebAssembly version, functionally speaking, implements the same thing as the C code base because it's a virtual machine. But by going through a assembly, we can produce a smaller, a more compressed version of the C compiler that's also multiplatform and we can chuck it in the repository.

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