Wasm3

Wasm3 is a high performance WebAssembly interpreter written in C.
It's packaged into a WebAssembly package, so you can finally run WebAssembly on WebAssembly 😆

When running natively, wasm3 is:

∼ 8x faster than other known wasm interpreters
∼ 4-5x slower than state of the art wasm JIT engines
∼ 12x slower than native execution

Based on CoreMark 1.0 benchmark. Your mileage may vary.

Running on WebAssembly.sh

First you need to make a wasm file you want to run available in the filesystem.
One way to do this is to get it from a server using curl command:

$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wasm3/wasm3/master/test/lang/fib32.wasm -o /tmp/fib32.wasm

$ ls -l /tmp/fib32.wasm
---------- 1 somebody somegroup 62 1970-01-19 05:45 /tmp/fib32.wasm

Now we can run wasm3 in interactive mode:

$ wasm3 --repl /tmp/fib32.wasm
wasm3> fib 20
Result: 6765
wasm3> fib 30
Result: 832040
wasm3> ^C
$

Or run a specific function directly:

$ wasm3 --func fib /tmp/fib32.wasm 30
Result: 832040

wasm3 also supports WASI, so you can run:

$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wasm3/wasm3/master/test/wasi/simple/test.wasm -o /tmp/test.wasm
$ wasm3 /tmp/test.wasm

or even... run wasm3 inside wasm3:

$ curl https://registry-cdn.wapm.io/contents/vshymanskyy/wasm3/0.4.9/build/wasm3-wasi.wasm -o /tmp/wasm3.wasm
$ wasm3 /tmp/wasm3.wasm /tmp/test.wasm

Tracing

You can also get structured traces of arbitrary WASM file execution (and this requires no specific support from the runtime):

$ wasm3-strace --repl /tmp/fib32.wasm
wasm3> fib 3
fib (i32: 3) {
  fib (i32: 1) {
  } = 1
  fib (i32: 2) {
    fib (i32: 0) {
    } = 0
    fib (i32: 1) {
    } = 1
  } = 1
} = 2
Result: 2

WASI apps tracing is also supported:

$ wasm3-strace /tmp/test.wasm trap
_start () {
  __wasm_call_ctors () {
    __wasilibc_populate_preopens () {
      wasi_snapshot_preview1!fd_prestat_get(3, 65528) { <native> } = 0
      malloc (i32: 2) {
        dlmalloc (i32: 2) {
          sbrk (i32: 0) {
          } = 131072
        } = 70016
      } = 70016
...
        strcmp (i32: 70127, i32: 32) {
        } = 0
        test_trap () {
          a () {
            b () {
              c () {
              } !trap = [trap] unreachable executed
...
==== wasm backtrace:
  0: 0x000c59 - .unnamed!c
  1: 0x000c5e - .unnamed!b
  2: 0x000c68 - .unnamed!a
  3: 0x000c72 - .unnamed!test_trap
  4: 0x000d2c - .unnamed!main
  5: 0x0037c9 - .unnamed!__main_void
  6: 0x000edb - .unnamed!__original_main
  7: 0x0002f3 - .unnamed!_start
Error: [trap] unreachable executed