iirc the compilation time of wasm in Cloudflare Workers is very problematic[1] and right now it contradicts their idea of running low latency fast scripts, does anyone know if anything has changed ?
Yeah, my bad, maybe a better sentence would be asking if the problem was solved completely...
Basically the "[FIXED]" in the thread is about making the compilation time 10x faster, from seconds to hundreds of milliseconds, which is still very incompatible for a service that tries to make use of the few milliseconds from the TLS handshake to eliminate cold start latency.
Ah, sorry for misunderstanding. I thought you were referring to the original issue.
The Wasm module in question here was 2.6MB uncompressed, which we consider quite large. IIRC after enabling liftoff it took about 200ms to load. Smaller modules would be expected to load faster. We'd normally recommend doing some tree shaking to get the size down to something in the hundreds-of-kilobytes range, in which case the load time would be expected to be tens of milliseconds, comparable to a TLS handshake.
The developer who reported the problem here considered it to be fixed, and we haven't heard anyone complain about Wasm cold start times since then, so we haven't prioritized further optimizations for the time being. If current cold start times are a problem for you, though, then please let us know.
I think you're assuming tone that isn't there. Look at it again, it's a factual statement. Nothing angry or accusational. As you say, a little empathy goes a long way. Try to interpret tone on the internet in a charitable manner, because you're just guessing at it most of the time.
I work in customer facing roles. Responses like that are considered hostile. If I responded like that in a professional capacity -- like the parent comment -- I'd have a lot of questions to answer.
And from the reply, the response wasn't even correct. Bad form.
You're right, I should have been more careful when writing that comment. I was trying to express that the original issue was fixed (and the "new issue" isn't actually an issue as far as we can tell), I didn't mean for it to come out hostile but I definitely see how it looks that way. I could have done better.
https://community.cloudflare.com/t/fixed-cloudflare-workers-...