There will be no major performance impacts to the user, because it will run a machine code, directly compiled from a C++ source by a GCC compiler variant for Native Client. To the user, the main benefit is that the same binary blob can be executed in any operating system that Chrome or Chromium is fully ported (currently with the exception of iOS and Android). For developers, it will be a way to create a huge distributed processing community for MEEP, that will unleash possibilities of discovering many new structures, with a cheap processing cost. If want to know more, you can ask me directly or read a little in this brief explanation: https://developers.google.com/native-client/overview
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Filip Dominec <filip.domi...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, I did not know this project before. What would be the greatest > benefits for the user? Would it not impact the performance too much? > Filip > > 2013/5/21, Fernando Carvalho <fernandocarvalhocoe...@gmail.com>: > > Hi everyone, > > > > Recently, Google Developers, at Google IO 2013, had announced PNaCl > (Native > > Client <https://developers.google.com/native-client/>), an Open Source > > technology that will allow developers to compile to LLVM intermediate > > instruction, before being optimized to a target platform. > > I've been working with some small simulations in an application developed > > within my staff, that can be massively distributed though the web, in > order > > to optimize some parameters, and it seems to work properly. > > So I would like to know, if there are any interested developers in such a > > project. > > PNaCl have an specific compiler, that is compliant gcc, and a set of > > libraries that talk to the browser, instead of the underlying operating > > system. > > The prize to invest in this kind of port, is that the application can run > > in whatever platform that Chrome/Chromium is able to run. > > > > -- > > Fernando > > > -- Fernando
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