What WASM runtime does ICP use? Is it homegrown?

wasmtime. Occasionally there are features that we would like to have available that would require maintaining a fork, but so far the benefit wasn’t deemed worth the effort

[image] Vivienne: Occasionally there are features that we would like to have available that would require maintaining a fork, but so far the benefit wasn’t deemed worth the effort wondering what features we are talking about. aren’t the maintainers of wasmtime open for contributions? …

The latest discussion was around wasm64 stability and/or the component model IIRC. There the matter is more about when the features get stabilized. The other thing I remember is something about interrupting calls that are in progress after n instructions, which would introduce a significant overhead…

WASM runtime for ICP

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cameronraysmith January 21, 2025, 4:46pm 5

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WASM runtime for ICP

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