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Practical WebAssembly
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Practical WebAssembly

by Sendil Kumar Nellaiyapen
May 2022
Intermediate to advanced
232 pages
3h 52m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 6: Installing and Using Binaryen

During the compilation process, compiled languages produce their own Intermediate Representation (IR). The compilers then optimize the IR to generate optimized code. Before passing it to LLVM, compilers should convert this IR into something that LLVM understands (LLVM IR). LLVM optimizes LLVM IR and produces native code (like the WebAssembly binary). These multiple IR generations and optimizations at different levels make the compilation process slower and not very effective. Binaryen tries to eliminate these multiple IR generations and uses its own IR.

(WebAssembly) Binary + Emscripten = Binaryen

Binaryen is a compiler and toolchain infrastructure library for WebAssembly, written in C++. It aims to ...

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