On Thursday, May 23, 2013 9:52:00 AM UTC+2, RyanZA wrote: > > Have a quick read through this article if you don't know what asm.js is: > > http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/native-level-performance-on-the-web-a-brief-examination-of-asm-js/ > > With firefox already supporting it, GWT should have the firefox compile > target target asm.js for, at least, things like ArrayList. > I didn't see anything about it in the recent I/O talk - has anybody looked > at how difficult it would be to support in the GWT compiler ? > > Copied from Ray Cromwell's comment on https://plus.google.com/107037260910017774154/posts/179TxALiF5v:
> Well, GWT assumes garbage collection semantics, and ASM.JS assumes typed > arrays for everything and malloc/free semantics. So it wouldn't hard to > support asm.js, but we'd end up memory leaking like crazy unless we > implemented a mark/sweep collector in JS :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
