This is one that I genuinely think will be printed in history books one day to show how insane American media culture became. CBS News presenting ethnic cleansing as a housing policy to be compared with home construction tax incentives.

"this throw could have been a br" - the wasm optimization equivalent of "this meeting could have been an email" github.com/WebAssembly/...

[Wasm EH] Optimize throws caught by TryTable into breaks by kripken · Pull Request #6980 · WebAssembly/binaryen

E.g. (try_table (catch_all $catch) (throw $e) ) => (try_table (catch_all $catch) (br $catch) ) This can then allow other passes to remove the TryTable, if no throwing things remain.

My recent wasm-opt speedups reached an Emscripten release.

Metal.

I called it over a week ago youtu.be/LZns-rPjZsE?...

Over the last month I made wasm-opt 2x faster: github.com/WebAssembly/... The shorter compile times will hopefully be noticeable in WebAssembly toolchains that use it!

Make compilation faster :rocket: · Issue #4165 · WebAssembly/binaryen

I did some investigation on the speed of compilation. This is getting important because of things like j2cl output which is a 50MB real-world file. Slowest passes: (in -O3; note that some passes ru...

So The Atlantic has one of these articles which is a review of a show about how Millenials are financially trapped and failing to launch with no caveats and I just want to scream because - while it's hard out there - the median Millenial is going *fine.*

a profiler can tell you what code is being called, but not why it is being called

It looks like a long-standing iOS issue with OOM errors on large wasm projects has finally been fixed in iOS 18, according to several user reports: github.com/emscripten-c... 🥳

Out-of-memory error in Safari (iOS/macOS) when reloading a page · Issue #19374 · emscripten-core/emscripten

Hello, I encountered an issue which seems to be systematic when building WASM code with Emscripten. When building with -pthread enabled, the resulting WASM code make Safari crash with an error Rang...

news media could have waited a week so Kenan Thompson had the option to play Mark Robinson in the SNL premiere