Consider to use WebAssembly instead of JavaScript
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- Dominant language
- Jupyter Notebook
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Description
WebAssembly is way faster to load and execute. It might speedup the user experience of using Jupyter Notebooks. Mozilla with their [Iodide](https://github.com/iodide-project/iodide) project tries to tap the WASM for a better performance.
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Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by reviewing how Jupyter Notebook currently uses JavaScript and compare the referenced Iodide/WebAssembly approach; done would require an agreed implementation scope and evidence of improved load and execution performance.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, jupyter-notebook, wasm
- Domain
- frontend, performance, web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 15/100