A Systematic Review of WebAssembly VS Javascript Performance Comparison
Joshua Wenata Sunarto, Angelina Quincy, Fakhira Shafa Maheswari, Quesynovich Denis Al Hafizh, Melanie Gabriela Tjandrasubrata, Mochammad Haldi Widianto · 2023
Web Assembly is one of brand-new programming languages on the web, it is equipped with complex binary format features so that it is more sophisticated and fast to load. In this paper, we collect material to compare quality performance of WASM and JS in various aspects (Runtime, Energy, Memory Usage). The performance hypothesis between WASM VS JS is depends on the type of web application you want to build. If the application requires very high performance and requires processing large data, then WASM may be a better choice. However, if the app is more focused on user interaction and view manipulation then JS may be a better fit. But after the authors do some systematic review of WASM and JS performance comparison, the authors conclude that WASM win in light application because it's faster and use less energy, but for heavy application, the authors conclude that JS is more convenient because it's significantly less memory needed than WASM, also it's unexpectedly more faster than WASM.