On the Energy Consumption and Performance of WebAssembly Binaries across Programming Languages and Runtimes in IoT
Linus Wagner, Maximilian Mayer, Andrea Marino, Alireza Soldani Nezhad, Hugo Zwaan, Ivano Malavolta · 2023
Context. WebAssembly (WASM) is a low-level bytecode format that is gaining traction among Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Because of IoT devices’ resources limitations, using WASM is becoming a popular technique for virtualization on IoT devices. However, it is unclear if the promises of WASM regarding its efficient use of energy and performance gains hold true.