WASM quiz

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What is WebAssembly's linear memory model?

1. What is WebAssembly's linear memory model?
2. What does it mean that WebAssembly runs in a "sandboxed" execution environment?
3. What is WebAssembly (WASM)?
4. What is a realistic use case where compiling to WebAssembly provides a meaningful benefit over pure JavaScript?
5. Why might a startup-latency-sensitive workload prefer WebAssembly over a JIT-compiled JavaScript approach, in some server/edge contexts?
6. What is WASI (WebAssembly System Interface)?
7. What is a common reason crossing the JavaScript/WASM boundary frequently can hurt performance, even though WASM execution itself is fast?
8. Why does WebAssembly typically execute faster than equivalent JavaScript for compute-heavy tasks?
9. What problem does a tool like wasm-bindgen (for Rust) solve?
10. Is WebAssembly meant to replace JavaScript in the browser?
11. What benefit does compiling an existing large C/C++ codebase (e.g. a game engine, a video codec) to WebAssembly provide?
12. What is the relationship between Rust and WebAssembly that has made Rust a particularly popular language for WASM projects?

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