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It is not very useful.
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We used to have a wasm-merge tool but removed it for a lack of use cases. Recently use cases have been showing up in the wasm GC space and elsewhere, as people are using more diverse toolchains together, for example a project might build some C++ code alongside some wasm GC code. Merging those wasm files together can allow for nice optimizations like inlining and better DCE etc., so it makes sense to have a tool for merging. Background: * Removal: #1969 * Requests: * wasm-merge - why it has been deleted #2174 * Compiling and linking wat files #2276 * wasm-link? #2767 This PR is a compete rewrite of wasm-merge, not a restoration of the original codebase. The original code was quite messy (my fault), and also, since then we've added multi-memory and multi-table which makes things a lot simpler. The linking semantics are as described in the "wasm-link" issue #2767 : all we do is merge normal wasm files together and connect imports and export. That is, we have a graph of modules and their names, and each import to a module name can be resolved to that module. Basically, like a JS bundler would do for JS, or, in other words, we do the same operations as JS code would do to glue wasm modules together at runtime, but at compile time. See the README update in this PR for a concrete example. There are no plans to do more than that simple bundling, so this should not really overlap with wasm-ld's use cases. This should be fairly fast as it works in linear time on the total input code. However, it won't be as fast as wasm-ld, of course, as it does build Binaryen IR for each module. An advantage to working on Binaryen IR is that we can easily do some global DCE after merging, and further optimizations are possible later.
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We used to have a wasm-merge tool but removed it for a lack of use cases. Recently use cases have been showing up in the wasm GC space and elsewhere, as people are using more diverse toolchains together, for example a project might build some C++ code alongside some wasm GC code. Merging those wasm files together can allow for nice optimizations like inlining and better DCE etc., so it makes sense to have a tool for merging. Background: * Removal: WebAssembly#1969 * Requests: * wasm-merge - why it has been deleted WebAssembly#2174 * Compiling and linking wat files WebAssembly#2276 * wasm-link? WebAssembly#2767 This PR is a compete rewrite of wasm-merge, not a restoration of the original codebase. The original code was quite messy (my fault), and also, since then we've added multi-memory and multi-table which makes things a lot simpler. The linking semantics are as described in the "wasm-link" issue WebAssembly#2767 : all we do is merge normal wasm files together and connect imports and export. That is, we have a graph of modules and their names, and each import to a module name can be resolved to that module. Basically, like a JS bundler would do for JS, or, in other words, we do the same operations as JS code would do to glue wasm modules together at runtime, but at compile time. See the README update in this PR for a concrete example. There are no plans to do more than that simple bundling, so this should not really overlap with wasm-ld's use cases. This should be fairly fast as it works in linear time on the total input code. However, it won't be as fast as wasm-ld, of course, as it does build Binaryen IR for each module. An advantage to working on Binaryen IR is that we can easily do some global DCE after merging, and further optimizations are possible later.
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It is not very useful, and this was as easy as fixing a broken wasm-merge test that came up in a separate WIP PR.