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The issue with large JavaScript files is the overhead of the browser parsing, interpreting, and executing of the JavaScript. The network transfer size has nothing to do with it.


wasm would be faster regarding parsing, interpreting and executing


WASM cannot interact with the DOM.


it can through JS interoperability (only needs tiny JS files), all of the remaining things can be handled by WASM.




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