Inside the Wizard Research Engine

Explore the innovative Wizard WebAssembly engine in this 44-minute conference talk from Strange Loop 2023. Dive into the world of WebAssembly (Wasm) and its potential as a fast, portable low-level target competing with native code performance. Learn about Wasm's expanding applications beyond the web, including embedded systems, cloud and edge deployments, and blockchains. Discover upcoming Wasm features such as garbage-collected data, first-class functions, and stack switching, and understand the challenges they present. Gain insights into the Wizard engine's design for instrumentation, dynamic analysis, and VM experimentation, with a focus on its innovative in-place interpreter and instrumentation capabilities. Presented by Ben L. Titzer, a Principal Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University and co-founder of the WebAssembly project, this talk offers a deep dive into cutting-edge Wasm research and development.