alt Hacker Newssee 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.
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.