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WebAssembly (abbreviated as Wasm) was initially introduced for the Web but quickly extended its reach into various domains beyond the Web. To create Wasm applications, developers can compile high-level programming languages into Wasm…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Yixuan Zhang , Mugeng Liu , Haoyu Wang , Yun Ma , Gang Huang , Xuanzhe Liu

WebAssembly (abbreviated WASM) has emerged as a promising language of the Web and also been used for a wide spectrum of software applications such as mobile applications and desktop applications. These applications, named as WASM…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Yixuan Zhang , Shangtong Cao , Haoyu Wang , Zhenpeng Chen , Xiapu Luo , Dongliang Mu , Yun Ma , Gang Huang , Xuanzhe Liu

As JavaScript has been criticized for performance and security issues in web applications, WebAssembly (Wasm) was proposed in 2017 and is regarded as the complementation for JavaScript. Due to its advantages like compact-size, native-like…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Ningyu He , Shangtong Cao , Haoyu Wang , Yao Guo , Xiapu Luo

WebAssembly is revolutionizing the approach to developing modern applications. Although this technology was born to create portable and performant modules in web browsers, currently, its capabilities are extensively exploited in multiple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Gaetano Perrone , Simon Pietro Romano

The growth in the adoption of the WebAssembly (WASM) standard has given rise to a rapidly increasing landscape of binary applications that are natively ported to the environment of websites. The flexibility of WASM has made it the preferred…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Lorenzo Corrias , Lorenzo Pisu , Davide Maiorca , Giorgio Giacinto

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a bytecode format originally serving as a compilation target for Web applications. It has recently been used increasingly on the server side, e.g., providing a safer, faster, and more portable alternative to Linux…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Shuyao Jiang , Ruiying Zeng , Zihao Rao , Jiazhen Gu , Yangfan Zhou , Michael R. Lyu

WebAssembly, or Wasm, is a low-level binary language that enables execution of near-native-performance code in web browsers. Wasm has proven to be useful in applications including gaming, audio and video processing, and cloud computing,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Mohammad Robati Shirzad , Patrick Lam

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a next-generation portable compilation target for deploying applications written in high-level languages on the web. In order to protect their memory from untrusted code, web browser engines confine the execution of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Marco Vassena , Marco Patrignani

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a binary instruction format that enables portable, sandboxed, and near-native execution across heterogeneous platforms, making it well-suited for serverless workflow execution on browsers, edge nodes, and cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Mario Colosi , Reza Farahani , Lauri Loven , Radu Prodan , Massimo Villari

All major web browsers now support WebAssembly, a low-level bytecode intended to serve as a compilation target for code written in languages like C and C++. A key goal of WebAssembly is performance parity with native code; previous work…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Abhinav Jangda , Bobby Powers , Emery Berger , Arjun Guha

WebAssembly (Wasm) has become a key compilation target for portable and efficient execution across diverse platforms. Benchmarking its performance, however, is a multi-dimensional challenge: it depends not only on the choice of runtime…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Riccardo Carissimi , Ben L. Titzer

WebAssembly is a growing technology to build cross-platform applications. We aim to understand the security issues that developers encounter when adopting WebAssembly. We mined WebAssembly questions on Stack Overflow and identified 359…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Pascal Marc André , Quentin Stiévenart , Mohammad Ghafari

WebAssembly (Wasm), as a compact, fast, and isolation-guaranteed binary format, can be compiled from more than 40 high-level programming languages. However, vulnerabilities in Wasm binaries could lead to sensitive data leakage and even…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Ningyu He , Zhehao Zhao , Hanqin Guan , Jikai Wang , Shuo Peng , Ding Li , Haoyu Wang , Xiangqun Chen , Yao Guo

WebAssembly has attracted great attention as a portable compilation target for programming languages. To facilitate in-depth studies about this technology, we have deployed Wasmizer, a tool that regularly mines GitHub projects and makes an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Alexander Nicholson , Quentin Stiévenart , Arash Mazidi , Mohammad Ghafari

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a binary instruction format designed as a portable compilation target, which has been widely used on both the web and server sides in recent years. As high performance is a critical design goal of Wasm, it is essential…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Shuyao Jiang , Ruiying Zeng , Yangfan Zhou , Michael R. Lyu

Wasm runtime is a fundamental component in the Wasm ecosystem, as it directly impacts whether Wasm applications can be executed as expected. Bugs in Wasm runtime bugs are frequently reported, thus our research community has made a few…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Shangtong Cao , Ningyu He , Xinyu She , Yixuan Zhang , Mu Zhang , Haoyu Wang

Application virtual machines provide strong isolation properties and are established in the context of software portability. Those opportunities make them interesting for scalable and secure IoT deployments. WebAssembly is an application…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Stefan Wallentowitz , Bastian Kersting , Dan Mihai Dumitriu

Recently, the WebAssembly (or Wasm) technology has been rapidly evolving, with many runtimes actively under development, providing cross-platform secure sandboxes for Wasm modules to run as portable containers. Compared with Docker, which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Zhaofeng Yu , Dongyang Zhan , Lin Ye , Haining Yu , Hongli Zhang , Zhihong Tian

WebAssembly (Wasm) has emerged as a powerful technology for executing high-performance code and reusing legacy code in web browsers. With its increasing adoption, ensuring the reliability of WebAssembly code becomes paramount. In this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Sara Baradaran , Liyan Huang , Mukund Raghothaman , Weihang Wang

Debugging and monitoring programs are integral to engineering and deploying software. Dynamic analyses monitor applications through source code or IR injection, machine code or bytecode rewriting, and virtual machine or direct hardware…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Elizabeth Gilbert , Matthew Schneider , Zixi An , Suhas Thalanki , Wavid Bowman , Alexander Bai , Ben L. Titzer , Heather Miller
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