We are requesting to extend our Origin Trial on WasmGC by another three milestones, effectively ending with M120.
The reason is that the standardization process is taking a little longer than we had hoped for and will be delayed by about three months blocking the shipment of a stable version. Since Google Sheets is currently running user experiments using the trial with positive results (currently at 50% of Google corporate sheets showing ~40% calculation time improvement), we would like to continue this experiment for the time being to gather more data, especially extending it to non-Google users before shipping. The current end milestone for the trial is M117 with the most optimistic shipment of the feature happening in M119, perhaps even later if last minute spec changes are requested before we can reach phase 4 of the proposal. We would therefore potentially end the trial before M120 if shipment were indeed to happen sooner or use the full three milestones if there are further delays. Thank you! Contact emails ad...@chromium.org, jkumme...@chromium.org Explainer https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/master/proposals/gc/Overview.md https://github.com/WebAssembly/function-references/blob/main/proposals/function-references/Overview.md Specification https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/tree/main/proposals/gc Summary The GC proposal adds efficient support for high-level managed languages to WebAssembly, via struct and array types that enable language compilers targeting Wasm to integrate with a garbage collector in the host VM. In Chrome, enabling this feature implies enabling Typed Function References, which allow function references to be stored in the aforementioned structs and arrays. Blink component Blink>JavaScript>WebAssembly <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component:Blink%3EJavaScript%3EWebAssembly> Search tags wasm <https://chromestatus.com/features#tags:wasm>, webassembly <https://chromestatus.com/features#tags:webassembly>, gc <https://chromestatus.com/features#tags:gc>, managed objects <https://chromestatus.com/features#tags:managed%20objects>, wasmgc <https://chromestatus.com/features#tags:wasmgc> TAG review https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/814 TAG review status Issues addressed Risks Interoperability and Compatibility Gecko: Positive WebKit: No signal Web developers: Positive Google Sheets, which is currently compiling Java to JavaScript, is experimenting with using WasmGC to speed up their calculation engine. JetBrains is working on a Kotlin -> WasmGC compiler. Dart is working on a Dart -> WasmGC compiler, in collaboration with Flutter. Other signals: WebView application risks Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications? Goals for experimentation Ongoing technical constraints Debuggability Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Android WebView)? No Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md> ? No Flag name Requires code in //chrome? False Tracking bug https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=7748 Launch bug https://launch.corp.google.com/launch/4231622 Estimated milestones OriginTrial desktop last 117 OriginTrial desktop first 112 OriginTrial Android last 117 OriginTrial Android first 112 Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status https://chromestatus.com/feature/6062715726462976 Links to previous Intent discussions Intent to Experiment: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/HDbvHCVFSW0 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to blink-dev+unsubscr...@chromium.org. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAPAU7Ryv%3D-1UFkh%2BJ5GBxMFBQ88FMa9u%3Dvbboo0hCy9xcOGgAA%40mail.gmail.com.
