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I thought all the benchmarks indicated that WASM is still slower than JS. That being said the only performance improvements offered by WASM is if it doesn't for garbage collection for consistence execution.

WASM isn't about performance. It is about writing applications in any language and importing those applications into an island in a web page.

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> I thought all the benchmarks indicated that WASM is still slower than JS.

No, wasm is almost always faster than JS, and that has been the case for a while.

Maybe you're thinking about some very specific aspect of performance or benchmark? (For example, wasm->JS calls might be slower than JS->JS calls in some cases.)

> WASM isn't about performance. It is about writing applications in any language and importing those applications into an island in a web page.

You don't really need wasm for that, do you? Anything compiles to JS nowadays and you'd actually get easier access to the DOM and GC and support for source maps (are those working for wasm yet?)

Flash has always been better for media and games than JavaScript. WASM fills that niche.

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