Notes on ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ Notes from Jeroen

TLDR: instead of extracting a .tar.gz archive, we can generate a small index file which lists the size and offset of each file in the tar, and use this metadata to mount the tar blob directly via Emscripten’s WORKERFS without any copying.

TLDR: we explain how to make libcurl based applications work in webassembly without changes by tunneling all traffic over a websocket proxy.

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