Beyond the Baseline: Experimental WebAssembly for High Performance

Explore the future of web development in this 39-minute conference talk from WAW 2025 workshop where Deepti Gandluri from Google examines experimental WebAssembly extensions designed to close the performance gap between browser and native applications. Learn about the challenges of executing compute-intensive workloads in browser VMs and discover how innovative extensions can optimize memory management, leverage hardware acceleration, and enhance browser ecosystem interoperability for significant performance improvements. This presentation, sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN, offers valuable insights into advancing WebAssembly beyond its current capabilities to tackle increasingly complex and resource-intensive web tasks.