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While it appears that cg_clif is faster to compile, does it provide any performance benefit compared to cg_llvm? Are the compiled binaries as fast as llvm compiled binaries? If not is the use-case for development purposes only?

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Correct, cranelift is meant for faster development build cycles

https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/blob/da02c913cc...

From the article, it is pretty clear that the resulting code is not as optimized as the LLVM backend. I didn't see any claims of how much slower it would be, but clearly that will vary greatly. Fast to compile is still really handy while developing.

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