Ok, been a week and no complaints, so I'm doing this. - Alon
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 1:51 AM, Jukka Jylänki <[email protected]> wrote: > Seconded, I also favor deprecating old non-typed array modes. Maintaining > that does add extra time and workload and the bots would run faster. So if > there is someone who might be using this old mode, please do comment on it > here. > > > 2014-08-19 7:37 GMT+03:00 Alon Zakai <[email protected]>: > >> I would like to deprecate the old non-typed array compiler modes. >> Specifically, that means compiling with --typed-arrays 0 or -s >> USE_TYPED_ARRAYS=0. That is a very old mode that was useful when not all >> browsers had typed arrays, which means Internet Explorer 9 and older, and >> very old versions of other major browsers. >> >> In practice, very few people use a browser without typed arrays these >> days, and if they do, it is likely also missing other features emscripten >> and other modern JavaScript-using projects assume, like recent Math.* and >> DOM stuff etc. >> >> Is anyone still using no-typed-array builds, that would benefit from us >> maintaining support for it? Note that if we drop support, old emscripten >> builds will still work. The only change is that going forward, new stuff in >> emscripten would only work with typed arrays. >> >> Unless there is a strong reason, I hope to deprecate no-typed-array build >> modes, and with that we can remove s_0_0 from the test suite, which not >> only tests without typed arrays but also other outdated things (optional |0 >> coercions, for example - pointless since these days they actually speed >> things up). We can also probably remove s_0_1 as well, which is an older >> form of the stuff we test in slow2 and slow2asm anyhow (basically s_0_1 is >> s_0_0 plus typed arrays, so it also has the pointless optional coercions). >> These changes would improve our bot build times significantly. >> >> - Alon >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "emscripten-discuss" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "emscripten-discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "emscripten-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
