Performance of WebAssembly runtimes in 2026

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I wanted to know if WebAssembly runtimes are getting faster. This is a follow-up to the earlier libsodium WebAssembly benchmarks from 2019 , 2021 and 2023 . Not “does the newest version beat native code in one microbenchmark?”, and not “which runtime has the prettiest benchmark chart?”, but something more boring and more useful: If I take the same C crypto code, compile it to WebAssembly, and run…

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