Recent studies have highlighted the potential of WebAssembly (Wasm) in enhancing web application performance. To better understand its capabilities, a comparison was conducted between Wasm and JavaScript for calculating factorials. The results showed that Wasm outperformed JavaScript in computationally intensive tasks like factorial calculations. This performance gain can be attributed to several factors.

Source: https://dev.to/dinesh_somaraju/javascript-and-webassembly-a-speed-showdown-ac3