Comment by dathinab

fun fact there is work in progress to have a cranelift based backend, which isn't exactly an interpreter but more like a AOT compiler build for WASM

but it anyway does compile things much faster at the cost of less optimizations (doesn't mean no optimizations or that it's slow per-see it's still designed to run WASM performant in a situation where a fast/low latency AOT is needed, but WASM programs are normally already pre-optimized and you many have to to do certain low level instruction optimizations which it still does)

AFIK the goal is to run it by default for the dev->unit test loop, as very often you don't care about high perf. code execution but about low latency getting feedback.

Through idk. the state of it.