How do these perform for cold-starts? I remember one of the disadvantages of using web assembly for Workers was more spin-up time, but maybe they figured out a way around that.

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dom96 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

We’ve got some cold start numbers in our previous blog post: https://blog.cloudflare.com/python-workers-advancements/.

There is still more to do here and it’s what we will be focusing on next.

	▲	aeyes an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The cold start numbers on that blog post show that its faster than AWS Lambda but your linked benchmark page [1] shows that Lambda is not only much faster but also much more consistent. [1] https://cold.picheta.me/#bare
	▲	hbcondo714 an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Thanks, we've been using firecracker VMs with AWS MicroVM[1] and Fly.io Sprites[1] but interested in using Workers instead [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48642510 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46557825

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amenghra 28 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

In many cases, the cold-start time might not be visible to users. E.g. if you serve your static content from a CDN, maybe you have stale content in local storage you can show while fetching updated data. If it all happens on a sub-100ms timescale, it should feel quite instant?