https://github.com/ealmloff/sledgehammer_bindgen

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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ealmloff/sledgehammer_bindgen
• Owner: ealmloff
• Created: 2022-11-18T04:27:55.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-08-22T16:10:36.000Z (5 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-29T11:11:18.062Z (9 days ago)
• Language: Rust
• Size: 180 KB
• Stars: 148
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 8
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# What is Sledgehammer Bindgen?

Sledgehammer bindgen provides faster rust batched bindings for js code.

# How does this compare to wasm-bindgen:

- wasm-bindgen is a lot more general it allows returning values and passing around a lot more different types of values. For most users wasm-bindgen is a better choice. Sledgehammer is specifically designed for web frameworks that want low-level, fast access to the dom.

- You can use sledgehammer bindgen with wasm-bindgen. See the docs and examples for more information.

# Why is it fast?

## String decoding

- Strings are expensive to decode, but the cost doesn't change much with the size of the string. Wasm-bindgen calls TextDecoder.decode for every string. Sledgehammer only calls TextEncoder.decode once per batch.

- If the string is small, it is faster to decode the string in javascript to avoid the constant overhead of TextDecoder.decode

- See this benchmark: https://jsbench.me/4vl97c05lb/5

## String Caching

- You can cache strings in javascript to avoid decoding the same string multiple times.

- If the string is static sledgehammer will hash by pointer instead of by value.

## Byte encoded operations

- In sledgehammer every operation is encoded as a sequence of bytes packed into an array. Every operation takes 1 byte plus whatever data is required for it.

- Each operation is encoded in a batch of four as a u32. Getting a number from an array buffer has a high constant cost, but getting a u32 instead of a u8 is not more expensive. Sledgehammer bindgen reads the u32 and then splits it into the 4 individual bytes. It will shuffle and pack the bytes into as few buckets as possible and try to inline reads into js.

- See this benchmark: https://jsbench.me/csl9lfauwi/2