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Development of Branch Processing System Using WebAssembly and JavaScript

  • Choi, Moon-Hyuk (Department of Computer Engineering, Korea University of Technology and Education) ;
  • Moon, Il-Young (Department of Computer Engineering, Korea University of Technology and Education)
  • Received : 2019.09.30
  • Accepted : 2019.11.11
  • Published : 2019.12.31
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Abstract

Existing web applications and services have historically been implemented using JavaScript. However, new technologies such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and Big Data are being developed as part of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. With the definition of the HTML5 web standard, services (such as the technologies mentioned above) that were previously not available through the Web become available. These services, however, need to have the same performance as native applications, and implementing these services will require new technologies. Therefore, additional tools that can work on the Web with native performance are needed. In this paper, a system for branching processing was established using JavaScript and WebAssembly, a language that can operate on the Web. This system performs user requests in advance, and requests are branched in a language that produces faster results. Therefore, a service capable of quick response times can be implemented.

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