> On Apr 11, 2019, at 7:03 AM, Xan <xan.lo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> as part of our work on improving 32bit support in JSC we at Igalia are 
> planning to have a look at enabling concurrent js

We don’t support concurrent JavaScript. 

We do have concurrent JITs and concurrent GC. 

> for these platforms. Before we dive in, though, we thought it would be better 
> to ask some preliminary questions:
> 
> - Was this feature only implemented for 64bit because that was the focus of 
> the implementors moving forward? Or is there any fundamental difficulty in 
> the current architecture? In particular we have seen some comments about 
> atomic updates of JSValues that suggest it could be hard (or impossible) to 
> get this done on 32bit with the current approach.

Can’t do atomic access to JSValues on 32-bit. That’s a showstopper. 

> 
> - Assuming this is doable right now, we'll get on with it. Assuming it's not: 
> would you be open to making the necessary changes to JSC to make concurrent 
> js an option on 32bits?

No. 

-Filip

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Xan
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