What's the status as of today? On Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 10:19:31 PM UTC-5, awt wrote: > > Thanks for your reply Alon. Looking to try out wasm soon :) > > On Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 3:14:08 AM UTC+8, Alon Zakai wrote: >> >> Still too early. The spec isn't final and browsers don't support it yet. >> Hopefully over the next few months, though. >> >> Emscripten+Binaryen support for emitting wasm was done early, so that we >> know it's all ready for when browsers are. Also to help test browsers by >> emitting content for them to try on. >> >> Performance, however, will not change much. asm.js in most browsers today >> is already running close to native speed, minus some sandboxing, so we >> can't expect a big change there. However, some things will help, like >> hardware min/max, load/store with offset. But I would guess less than 5% >> speedup in throughput. (On the other hand, asm.js will get SIMD and threads >> before wasm, so there will be a period where it is faster.) >> >> Code size should be noticeably smaller. At least 33%. And startup should >> be far faster as well due to avoiding parsing JS and going straight from >> binary to codegen (10x or more for the parse stage). >> >> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 7:10 AM, awt <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I understand that Emscripten can now emit WebAssembly thru Binaryen but >>> is the generated WebAssembly supported on Chrome or Firefox? >>> >>> Do we also have any benchmarks on the performance as well as code size? >>> Thanks. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "emscripten-discuss" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >>
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