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swannodette • last Saturday at 5:16 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Loading 50mb of WASM is a big tradeoff just to run code on a website.

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extraduder_ire • yesterday at 2:23 PM

For comparison: the homepage of cnn.com right now is 33.37MB on my machine. 16.82MB of which is JavaScript.

tuveson • last Saturday at 5:30 PM

Loading time is pretty rough, but it seems responsive enough after the initial load. Probably as fast or faster than downloading and installing GHC locally.

wslh • last Saturday at 6:00 PM

I would assume that in the near future one can preload, cache, update selected WASM packages. I also imagine that sooner than that we can preload open models in the browser to run the natively instead of only invoking third parties (e.g. window.ai in the DOM)