This commit fixes a few issues around managing the thread-local state of a wasmtime thread. We intentionally only have a singular TLS variable in the whole world, and the problem is that when stack-switching off an async thread we were not restoring the previous TLS state. This is necessary in two cases: * Futures aren't guaranteed to be polled/completed in a stack-like fashion. If a poll sees that a future isn't ready then we may resume execution in a previous wasm context that ends up needing the TLS information. * Futures can also cross threads (when the whole store crosses threads) and we need to save/restore TLS state from the thread we're coming from and the thread that we're going to. The stack switching issue necessitates some more glue around suspension and resumption of a stack to ensure we save/restore the TLS state on both sides. The thread issue, however, also necessitates that we use `#[inline(never)]` on TLS access functions and never have TLS borrows live across a function which could result in running arbitrary code (as was the case for the `tls::set` function.
wasmtime
A standalone runtime for WebAssembly
A Bytecode Alliance project
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Installation
The Wasmtime CLI can be installed on Linux and macOS with a small install script:
$ curl https://wasmtime.dev/install.sh -sSf | bash
Windows or otherwise interested users can download installers and binaries directly from the GitHub Releases page.
Example
If you've got the Rust compiler installed then you can take some Rust source code:
fn main() {
println!("Hello, world!");
}
and compile/run it with:
$ rustup target add wasm32-wasi
$ rustc hello.rs --target wasm32-wasi
$ wasmtime hello.wasm
Hello, world!
Features
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Lightweight. Wasmtime is a standalone runtime for WebAssembly that scales with your needs. It fits on tiny chips as well as makes use of huge servers. Wasmtime can be embedded into almost any application too.
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Fast. Wasmtime is built on the optimizing Cranelift code generator to quickly generate high-quality machine code at runtime.
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Configurable. Whether you need to precompile your wasm ahead of time, generate code blazingly fast with Lightbeam, or interpret it at runtime, Wasmtime has you covered for all your wasm-executing needs.
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WASI. Wasmtime supports a rich set of APIs for interacting with the host environment through the WASI standard.
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Standards Compliant. Wasmtime passes the official WebAssembly test suite, implements the official C API of wasm, and implements future proposals to WebAssembly as well. Wasmtime developers are intimately engaged with the WebAssembly standards process all along the way too.
Language Support
You can use Wasmtime from a variety of different languages through embeddings of the implementation:
- Rust - the
wasmtimecrate - C - the
wasm.h,wasi.h, andwasmtime.hheaders - Python - the
wasmtimePyPI package - .NET - the
WasmtimeNuGet package - Go - the
wasmtime-gorepository
Documentation
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