WasmEdge Features

WasmEdge is one of the fastest WebAssembly runtimes on the market (based on LLVM AOT).

• A Lightweight Design for High-performance Serverless Computing, published on IEEE Software, Jan 2021. https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.07115
• Performance Analysis for Arm vs. x86 CPUs in the Cloud, published on infoQ.com, Jan 2021. https://www.infoq.com/articles/arm-vs-x86-cloud-performance/
• WasmEdge is the fastest WebAssembly Runtime in Suborbital Reactr test suite, Dec 2021

Besides, WasmEdge supports various WebAssembly proposals and WASI proposals, as well as several non-standard extensions, which indicates that WasmEdge is an extensionable WebAssembly runtime. In this chapter, we'll introduce the key features of WasmEdge.

• Supported WASM and WASI proposals
• WasmEdge proprietary extensions
• Running WasmEdge on various platforms
• Integrability of WasmEdge on programming languages or frameworks
• Compare with other containers