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Hi, good afternoon! Are you enjoying Okinawa?
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Today, I'm going to introduce my product, an mruby for WebAssembly.
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First, let me introduce myself. I am Uchio Kondo from a company in Japan.
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I work as an infrastructure engineer, and my company is one of the largest live streaming and gaming apps in Japan.
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Additionally, I am a translator for the book "Learning eBPF." It's now available in Japan, so please let me know if you get a chance to read it.
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So today, I'm going to talk about Ruby and WebAssembly.
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I will provide several examples in various programming languages. I changed the background for convenience, and this side is multilingual, so please be mindful.
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Regarding Ruby for WebAssembly, I think you already know that Ruby is a language that can be compiled into a binary format. You know that C is language-based, and you can compile it into a format that runs in browsers.
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But I am going to show you another approach. This is mruby, which is specialized for WebAssembly use cases. This system consists of two components: the mruby compiler and the mrb command. You can install mruby using the cargo command.
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You may understand this function, which you might refer to as the f number calculus. You must prepare an RBS file for this function.
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If you have these two files, you can compile them into one WebAssembly file.
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This WASM file exports a function named 'fib,' which you can check using 'wasm object dump' command. You can run this using various runtimes, like VM H.
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The calculated Fibonacci number may be correct. Now, you may wonder whether this WebAssembly file can run in a browser. The answer is yes.
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You need to prepare an HTML file that includes the necessary JavaScript code. This HTML will invoke the Fibonacci function and compute its value.
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Using mruby for WebAssembly, you can work both server-side and browser-side, producing one binary. This allows you to export specific functions. Additionally, we can specify functions to import for the Ruby program.
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To understand this system, we need to grasp two technologies: WebAssembly and mruby. Let's begin with WebAssembly.
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First, how many of you know about WebAssembly? I believe you might think of it as something magical that allows languages like Ruby or Python to run in the browser.
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You might have heard that Google uses WebAssembly, especially for image and video encoding.
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WebAssembly is widely utilized across technology stacks. It is essentially a stack-based virtual machine that executes its instructions on browsers, servers, and other environments.
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For instance, it can be incorporated into load balancers, log analyzers, and even containers.
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In fact, in cloud-native environments, WebAssembly can be used for configuration management. Man, it is almost everywhere!
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Now you know about the export and import functionalities available in WebAssembly. Next, let’s look into how this works with Ruby.
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Here, I will show you a Ruby Answer method that internally specifies what functions to export and their signatures. You will also specify import signatures.
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By compiling a Ruby file, you can leverage inversor as input. The result from a simple addition such as 21 + 42 will display as 63.
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This showcases the basic functionality of WebAssembly, but let's dive a step deeper.
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WebAssembly is essentially a binary format that contains a magic number, version information, and various sections.
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Now, the sections consist of multiple types such as function declarations, memory declarations, globals, exports, and more. You can inspect these sections and confirm function signatures with tools that analyze WASM objects.
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Import and export functionality is crucial. The interface allows functionality for system aspects like file access, networking, randomness, and threading.
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For example, functions like 'random get' can serve similar purposes to system calls you may know.
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WebAssembly, therefore, gives developers a great array of input functions. This means that you can generate code to work seamlessly across different runtimes.
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This brings me to mbh, which is the project’s implementation for managing code for both the mruby VM and WebAssembly.
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The goal is to offer a reliable runtime for mruby that is efficient in size. For instance, mruby with its dependencies can take up 18MB while the output using mruby for WebAssembly can be just 8MB.
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But if I create an example Fibonacci function using mbh, it is only 174KB, showcasing its capacity to handle the basic functionalities of mruby.
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Furthermore, compiling Ruby with this system allows for the efficient calculation of Fibonacci numbers while being lightweight.
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Many developers have expressed interest in the potential for growth and performance improvements of these runtimes.
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Now, let’s summarize the connection between mruby, WebAssembly, and their integration for development.
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Overall, the integration is still actively developed and has great potential to enhance your Ruby code on the web by building compact and efficient binaries.
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Thank you for your attention and I hope you're looking forward to experimenting with these technologies.
