Comparing the Energy Efficiency of WebAssembly and JavaScript in Web Applications on Android Mobile Devices

Hasselt, Max van; Huijzendveld, Kevin; Noort, Nienke; Ruijter, Sasja de; Islam, Tanjina; Malavolta, Ivano

doi:10.1145/3530019.3530034

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“…In a continuation of our previous research on the GraalVM ecosystem, we examined Truffle-Wasm, a Wasm based system hosted on GraalVM and Truffle Java framework, outlining the architecture and performance of TruffleWasm within the GraalVM-based ecosystem based on tests conducted in our academic environment. Another work investigated the correlation between energy consumption and the use of Wasm versus JavaScript [103]. This research showed that Wasm consumes less energy than JavaScript.…”

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confidence: 99%

An Overview of WebAssembly for IoT: Background, Tools, State-of-the-Art, Challenges, and Future Directions

Ray

2023

Future Internet

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This paper explores the relationship between two emerging technologies, WebAssembly (Wasm) and the Internet of Things (IoT). It examines the complementary roles of these technologies and their impact on modern web applications. First, it delves into the capabilities of Wasm as a high-performance binary format that allows developers to leverage low-level languages for computationally intensive tasks. Second, it seeks to explain why integration of IoT and Wasm is important. Third, it discusses the strengths and limitations of various tools and tool chains that are crucial for Wasm development and implementation, with a special focus on IoT. Fourth, it presents the state-of-the-art with regard to advances that combine both technologies. Fifth, it discusses key challenges and provides future directions. Lastly, it provides an in-depth elaboration of the future aspects of Wasm, with a strong focus on IoT, concluding that IoT and Wasm can provide developers with a versatile toolkit that enables them to balance productivity and performance in both web and non-web development scenarios. The collaborative use of these technologies opens up new possibilities for pushing the boundaries of web application development in terms of interactivity, security, portability, scalability, and efficient computational capabilities. As web and non-web embeddings continue to evolve, the integration of IoT and Wasm will play a crucial role in shaping the future of innovative application development. The key findings of this extensive review work suggest that existing tool sets can be easily conglomerated together to form a new era in WebAssembly–IoT infrastructure for low-power, energy-efficient, and secure edge–IoT ecosystems with near-native execution speed. Furthermore, the expansion of edge–IoT ecosystems can be augmented with prospective cloud-side deployments. However, there remains a strong need to more cohesively advance the amalgamation of Wasm and IoT technologies in the near future.

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Section: Applications and Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Overview of WebAssembly for IoT: Background, Tools, State-of-the-Art, Challenges, and Future Directions

Ray

2023

Future Internet

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“…[3], [16], [26], [27], [30], [31], [31]- [34], [39], [43], [46], [47], [49], [50], [59] Hardware-based 24 [14], [15], [28], [29], [35], [37], [38], [40], [41], [44], [45], [51]- [56], [58], [60], [62]- [65], [67] Estimation-based 4 [36], [42], [48], [61] supplier profiles) on the device and can be accessed via the Android Debug Bridge, for further analysis, even on a single hardware unit [30], [32], [33]. An alternative for devices with Qualcomm chips was Trepn Profiler [31], [32], [49], [50]. It was also used by Ahmad et al [70] with the PowerTutor app to evaluate the performance of dynamic analysis-based energy estimation.…”

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“…Similarly, the consolidation of JS and CSS files [46], [51] into a single file serves to decrease the number of Hypertext Transfer Protocol requests. As an alternative to JS code that has high-computation requirements, the launch of WebAssembly constitutes a performance equally energy-efficiency enhancement [50]. WebAssembly can be integrated as a virtual machine into the JS-environment.…”

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Energy-Saving Strategies for Mobile Web Apps and their Measurement: Results from a Decade of Research

Benedikt

Felderer

2023

2023 IEEE/ACM 10th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft)

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In 2022, over half of the web traffic was accessed through mobile devices. By reducing the energy consumption of mobile web apps, we can not only extend the battery life of our devices, but also make a significant contribution to energy conservation efforts. For example, if we could save only 5% of the energy used by web apps, we estimate that it would be enough to shut down one of the nuclear reactors in Fukushima. This paper presents a comprehensive overview of energy-saving experiments and related approaches for mobile web apps, relevant for researchers and practitioners. To achieve this objective, we conducted a systematic literature review and identified 44 primary studies for inclusion. Through the mapping and analysis of scientific papers, this work contributes: (1) an overview of the energy-draining aspects of mobile web apps, (2) a comprehensive description of the methodology used for the energy-saving experiments, and (3) a categorization and synthesis of various energy-saving approaches.

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A Systematic Review of WebAssembly VS Javascript Performance Comparison

Sunarto,

Quincy,

Maheswari

et al. 2023

2023 International Conference on Information Management and Technology (ICIMTech)

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Comparing the Energy Efficiency of WebAssembly and JavaScript in Web Applications on Android Mobile Devices

Cited by 4 publications

References 11 publications

An Overview of WebAssembly for IoT: Background, Tools, State-of-the-Art, Challenges, and Future Directions

An Overview of WebAssembly for IoT: Background, Tools, State-of-the-Art, Challenges, and Future Directions

Energy-Saving Strategies for Mobile Web Apps and their Measurement: Results from a Decade of Research

A Systematic Review of WebAssembly VS Javascript Performance Comparison

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