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Wasmi is an efficient and lightweight WebAssembly interpreter with a focus on constrained and embedded systems.
Version 0.31.0 has been audited by SRLabs.
As of 2024-02-01, the original owner and maintainer of the Wasmi project, Parity Technologies, has officially transferred ownership of the project to me, Robin Freyler. Read more about this transfer here.
The following list states some of the distinct features of Wasmi.
- Simple, correct and deterministic execution of WebAssembly.
- Low-overhead and cross-platform WebAssembly runtime for embedded environments.
- JIT bomb resisting translation.
- Loosely mirrors the Wasmtime API.
- 100% WebAssembly spec testsuite compliance.
- Built-in support for fuel metering.
The new Wasmi engine supports a variety of WebAssembly proposals and will support even more of them in the future.
| WebAssembly Proposal | Status | Comment |
|---|---|---|
mutable-global |
✅ | Since version 0.14.0. |
saturating-float-to-int |
✅ | Since version 0.14.0. |
sign-extension |
✅ | Since version 0.14.0. |
multi-value |
✅ | Since version 0.14.0. |
bulk-memory |
✅ | Since version 0.24.0. (#628) |
reference-types |
✅ | Since version 0.24.0. (#635) |
simd |
❌ | Unlikely to be supported. |
tail-calls |
✅ | Since version 0.28.0. (#683) |
extended-const |
✅ | Since version 0.29.0. (#707) |
function-references |
📅 | Planned but not yet implemented. (#774) |
gc |
📅 | Planned but not yet implemented. (#775) |
multi-memory |
📅 | Planned but not yet implemented. (#776) |
threads |
📅 | Planned but not yet implemented. (#777) |
relaxed-simd |
❌ | Unlikely to be supported since simd is unlikely to be supported. |
component-model |
📅 | Planned but not yet implemented. (#897) |
| WASI | 👨🔬 | Experimental support via the wasmi_wasi crate or the Wasmi CLI application. |
Install the newest Wasmi CLI version:
cargo install wasmi_cliRun wasm32-unknown-unknown or wasm32-wasi Wasm binaries:
wasmi_cli <WASM_FILE> --invoke <FUNC_NAME> [<FUNC_ARGS>]*Refer to the Wasmi crate docs to learn how to use the Wasmi crate as library.
Clone the Wasmi repository and build using cargo:
git clone https://github.com/wasmi-labs/wasmi.git --recursive
cd wasmi
cargo build
cargo testIn order to benchmark Wasmi use the following command:
cargo benchUse translate, instantiate, execute or overhead filters to only run benchmarks that test performance of Wasm translation, instantiation, execution or miscellaneous overhead respectively, e.g. cargo bench execute.
We maintain a timeline for benchmarks of every commit to master that can be viewed here.
Wasmi supports a wide variety of architectures and platforms.
- Fore more details see this list of supported platforms for Rust.
- Note: Wasmi can be used in
no_stdembedded environments, thus not requiring the standard library (std). - Only some platforms are checked in CI and guaranteed to be fully working by the Wasmi maintainers.
In order to reap the most performance out of Wasmi we highly recommended
to compile the Wasmi crate using the following Cargo profile:
[profile.release]
lto = "fat"
codegen-units = 1When compiling for the WebAssembly target we highly recommend to post-optimize
Wasmi using Binaryen's wasm-opt tool since our experiments displayed a
80-100% performance improvements when executed under Wasmtime and also
slightly smaller Wasm binaries.
Licensed under either of
- Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
- MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.