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Discussion on: Why the heck is everyone talking about WebAssembly?

 
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Ryan • Edited

Client-side compression is a great use case, I didn't even think about that.

If a user wants to take a photo on their phone and post it to a website, they'll upload it in the default maximum resolution and then the server will have to compress it. With wasm the resizing could be done in browser and save bandwidth/data plus server resources.