On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 2:15 PM Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-06-22 at 13:56 -0700, William Stein wrote: > > > > (5) provide a WebAssembly option > > > > WebAssembly is typically about half the speed as native code (at best), > but > > it is highly cross platform and self contained. WebAssembly is > difficult > > mainly when you have to deal with the OS somehow (e.g., filesystem, > > networking, etc.), and fortunately, a lot of the code in Sage is math > > libraries that support a non-threaded mode, so are particularly easy to > > port to WebAssembly. A good example is Pari, which is one of "sage's > > non-Python dependencies". > > > > We always wind up back here. Are we building mathematics software, or > signing on to run the world's most experimental linux distribution? > WebAssembly is not an experimental linux distribution, and it has very little overlap with linux distributions. The WebAssembly ecosystem is built from the ground up, primarily on the LLVM (and Rust) toolchain, and an ecosystem of free software that is much more liberally licensed (and smaller) than what is typically in Linux distributions. WebAssembly is neither better nor worse than Linux distributions; instead it is a different thing that solves different problems. To pre-empt another potential misconception, WebAssembly is more helpful for the needs of Sage than Java VM's because C/C++ can directly target WebAssembly. William -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CACLE5GBfzsBqxg9V%2BfsC1mA73aZf5m6U89vmh7HmTPGtYYfTxA%40mail.gmail.com.
