Paper on design, semantics, and implementation of WebAssembly

We are happy to announce the availability of the following technical paper:

  "Bringing the Web up to Speed with WebAssembly"
  Andreas Haas, Andreas Rossberg, Derek L. Schuff, Ben L. Titzer - Google
Inc
  Dan Gohman, Luke Wagner, Alon Zakai - Mozilla Inc
  Michael Holman - Microsoft Inc
  JF Bastien - Apple Inc
  To appear at: ACM-SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and
Implementation (PLDI 2017)
  Preprint: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://github.
com/WebAssembly/spec/raw/master/papers/pldi2017.pdf

The paper provides a technical presentation of the essentials of
WebAssembly, including:

- an overview of its motivation and design,
- a full formal semantics of both execution and validation,
- preliminary experience and performance measurements from implementations
in four major browsers.

Enjoy!

/Andreas Rossberg, on behalf of all the authors