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owaislone on July 19, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: TinyGo: New Go Compiler Based on LLVM

GC works even in WASM? That's great! What size wasm targets does TinyGo generate compared to the regular Go compiler?

sendilkumarn on July 19, 2019 | [–]

It produces much smaller binaries My blog post on it -> https://dev.to/sendilkumarn/tiny-go-to-webassembly-5168

justinclift on July 19, 2019 | [–]

In the (reasonably simple) stuff we've been doing so far, TinyGo produced wasm files are 2-3% the size of mainline Go produced wasm files. eg:

https://justinclift.github.io/tinygo_canvas2/ (~19.5kB)

https://justinclift.github.io/tinygo-wasm-rotating-cube/ (WebGL, ~12kB)

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