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One fairly revealing microbenchmark for WASM runtimes is `int8` dot products & angular/cosine distances.

(My) NumKong [1] has implementations targeting both vanilla AVX2/Haswell and AVX2-VNNI/Alder Lake, which makes it easy to see where runtimes and code generators leave performance on the table.

I started a few Wasmtime/Cranelift PRs around this, but didn’t manage to finish them :facepalm: Might be a fun weekend project for someone interested in backend/codegen work.

[1]: https://github.com/ashvardanian/NumKong

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