Porffor: Blazing Fast JavaScript Runtime via WebAssembly
2025-08-17
Porffor is a JS engine/runtime that compiles JavaScript ahead-of-time to WebAssembly and native binaries, resulting in tiny (<1MB), fast (millisecond-level) binaries. Benchmarks on AWS Lambda show it's 12x faster than Node.js and 4x faster than Amazon's LLRT, with lower costs. While still pre-alpha with limited JS support and lacking I/O and Node compatibility, its potential for optimizing small Lambda functions is significant.
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