It will take some time, I'm afraid, as the change from 0xb (current
version) to 0xc (next one) is quite large (wasm changes from an ast to a
stack machine, adds globals, adds offsets in memory and table segments, and
many others). I'd guess a few weeks.

However, if you use Firefox nightly / Chrome canary + emscripten incoming,
you should be able to emit 0xb code and run it right now. Except for bugs
of course ;) But overall we are trying to switch versions like 0xb => 0xc
in both the toolchain and browsers all at the same time, so aside for a few
days they should be in sync.

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 7:49 AM, Bailey Hayes <[email protected]> wrote:

> Do you know when the next milestone checkpoint is going to be? Code size
> has always been a sticking point for us. I'd like to run a few experiments
> with release build optimizations enabled so that I can send around a demo
> link (bonus points if it works in multiple browsers). I've heard size
> reductions can be between 33-44% and I want to get a good idea of where my
> 27MB app is going to land.
>
> Floh, thank you for being an awesome vanguard! I bet those issues would
> have bitten us in the field if they had made it to release.
>
> On Tuesday, August 16, 2016 at 3:19:41 AM UTC-4, Floh wrote:
>>
>> Main problem for someone playing around with WebAssembly at the moment is
>> IMHO that the required tools and publicly available web browsers are
>> getting out of sync every few weeks(?). You need the emscripten SDK,
>> binaryen, and a Spidermonkey JS build (I use the one from mozilla-central,
>> and compile myself), and there must be a browser which supports the current
>> version of emitted WebAssembly (usually the latest Nightly or Chrome Canary
>> build).
>>
>> Sometimes the generated code isn't accepted by the current Nightly or
>> Canary. Other then that, all my stuff was running out of the box with no
>> code changes required.
>>
>> On Chrome Canary I've got a feeling that the JS engine is getting a bit
>> fragile in the past few months for asm.js, at least my 8-bit emulator demo
>> is pretty good at triggering bugs in Canary recently ;) I'm not sure if
>> this is related to the current work going on in WebAssembly (I've had cases
>> where WebAssembly was running stable, but the asm.js version triggered
>> aw-snap pages). I'm just hoping these problem don't make it into the live
>> version...
>>
>> Here's the current ticket: https://bugs.chromium.
>> org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=633497
>>
>> And here's a recent one: https://bugs.chromium.org
>> /p/chromium/issues/detail?id=611976
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Floh.
>>
>> Am Montag, 15. August 2016 23:26:28 UTC+2 schrieb Robert Goulet:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>>>>
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