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dispatchrun / wzprof

wzprof

WebAssembly Profiler based on Wazero

3Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
169GitHub stars
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What it is

WebAssembly Profiler based on Wazero

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2023-05-11 17:41:17 UTC to 2023-07-01 17:18:47 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

0122023-05-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-05-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsMay 82023-05-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-05-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-05-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-05-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-05-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-06-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMay 292023-06-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-06-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-06-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-06-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-06-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-06-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-06-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-07-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsJun 26

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Jun 192023-06-19 00:00:00 UTC2023-06-26 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 262023-06-26 00:00:00 UTC2023-07-03 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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as far as I know wazero is the only zero-dependency Wasm runtime written in Go. This is not just one of those "written in $LANG" kinda deal: most other runtimes require linking against a native library; this in turn plays against a lot of the killer features of Go, such as good tooling, easy cross-compilation, goroutines [0]; so, not requiring Cgo means a team may bring wazero to their Go project without a second thought. As for other features, we may not be as bleeding edge as other projects, but we are a rather tiny team. If you expect support for WASI (preview 1) we have it :) we try to concentrate our effort on high-quality support of stable specs. EDIT: oh, and a huge shout-out to Stealthrocket, they are building a lot of cool stuff on top of wazero: - wzprof, a wasm profiler integrating with pprof https://github.com/stealthrocket/wz
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prof - timecraft, a wasm time-traveling runtime https://github.com/stealthrocket/timecraft [0] see "CGO is not Go" https://dave.cheney.net/2016/01/18/cgo-is-not-go
In Wazero: Zero dependency WebAssembly runtime written in Go
pelletier·May 11, 2023Submission

Show HN: Wzprof, a cross-language profiler using WebAssembly

We are excited to present wzprof: a pprof-based profiler for WebAssembly modules. With it we can collect CPU and memory profiles during their execution. You execute your program compiled to WebAssembly under wzprof, and you get profiling metrics that can be consumed by anything that understands the pprof format (e.g. go pprof, Pyroscope, Parca). A few things motivated us to build this tool. WebAssembly runtimes typically allow profiling guest code via an external profiler such as perf, but in many cases, the recording and analysis of profiles remain a difficult task, especially due to features like JIT compilation. pprof is the de-facto standard profiling tool for Go programs and offers some of the simplest and quickest ways to gather insight into the performance of an application. wzprof aims the combine the capabilities and user experi
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ence of pprof, enabling the profiling of any application compiled to WebAssembly.
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