watr

Light & fast WASM compiler. An alternative to wabt/wat2wasm.
Useful for high-level languages or dynamic (in-browser) compilation.
Supports complete standard text syntax and official testsuite.

Usage

Compile

Compile wasm text or syntax tree into wasm binary.

import { compile } from 'watr'

const buffer = compile(`(func (export "double")
  (param f64) (result f64)
  (f64.mul (local.get 0) (f64.const 2))
)`)
const module = new WebAssembly.Module(buffer)
const instance = new WebAssembly.Instance(module)
const {double} = instance.exports

double(108) // 216

Parse

Parse input wasm text into syntax tree.

import { parse } from 'watr'

parse(`(func (export "double") (param f64) (result f64) (f64.mul (local.get 0) (f64.const 2)))`)
// [
//   'func', ['export', '"double"'], ['param', 'f64'], ['result', 'f64'],
//   ['f64.mul', ['local.get', 0], ['f64.const', 2]]
// ]

Print

Format input wasm text or syntax tree into minified or pretty form.

import { print } from 'watr'

const src = `(func (export "double")
  (param f64) (result f64)
  (f64.mul (local.get 0) (f64.const 2))
)`

// pretty-print (default)
print(src, {
  indent: '  ',
  newline: '\n',
})
// (func (export "double")
//   (param f64) (result f64)
//     (f64.mul
//       (local.get 0)
//       (f64.const 2)))

// minify
print(src, {
  indent: false,
  newline: false
})
// (func (export "double")(param f64)(result f64)(f64.mul (local.get 0)(f64.const 2)))

Status

• core
• mutable_globals
• extended const
• sat_float_to_int
• sign_extension
• multi-value
• bulk memory ops
• memory64
• multiple memories
• simd
• relaxed_simd
• ref types
• func refs
• gc
• exceptions
• threads
• tail_call
• annotations
• code_metadata

Alternatives

	Size (gzipped)	Performance (op/s)
watr	5 kb	6000
wabt	300 kb	574
wat-compiler	6 kb	348

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