On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Robert O'Callahan <rob...@ocallahan.org> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Brian Smith <br...@briansmith.org> wrote: >> It seems likely that if something like Moz2D became the standard API then >> we'd be able to optimize it more easily than we'd be able to optimize an API >> that worked much differently than Moz2D. > > No, because asm.js code must go through Web platform APIs, and the Web > platform API you would implement cairo bindings on top of is canvas-2D, and > that's fixed in stone
I don't think it is fixed in stone that asm.js code must go through Web Platform APIs. I believe the requirement is that it must be possible to translate asm.js code into Web Platform APIs in a way where the result works reasonably. AFAICT, there's nothing technically stopping us from implementing any kind of specially-optimized passthrough logic for any particular API, and also I think that idea is compatible politically with our stance on asm.js, compared to "ActiveG." > --- and we have it implemented on top of Moz2D, and it > works well, better than when we had canvas-2D implemented on cairo. Good to know. Cheers, Brian _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
