On Wed, 19 Aug 2020 08:25:26 -0700 Alon Zakai <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everyone, > > Last week we released Emscripten 2.0.0. That's a big milestone as it's the > first version to not support the old fastcomp backend anymore, > > https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/issues/11319 > > You can still use it by using an older version (the last to support > fastcomp is 1.40.1), but the new upstream backend is better in every way! > And it's been the default version when you install "latest" etc. for quite > a while now. > Thanks, Alon [and all] for this release and other work on emscripten. I got it to work for https://fc-solve.shlomifish.org/js-fc-solve/text/ eventually. > This is also the first version to not support Python 2.*, and only support > 3.* > > Both of those don't have immediate benefits, but they are letting us do a > lot of cleanups and simplifications. See > > https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/issues/11860 > > We've already improved code quality quite a bit in just a week, and there's > a lot more to come. These simplifications will speed up development. They > will also unblock some things that were tricky to do while we supported two > backends, such as some link time improvements and better debugging support > - specifically we aim to do less during -O0 links, both for speed and to > properly preserve DWARF info (for example, one of the first parts of that > is in https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen/pull/3044). > > - Alon > -- Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/ https://is.gd/i5eMQd - Emma Watson’s Interview for a Software Dev Job Chuck Norris was the 1,000,000,000th viewer of the Gangnam Style video on YouTube. Summer Glau was the preceding 100 million views. — https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/Summer-Glau/ Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - https://shlom.in/reply . -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/emscripten-discuss/20200821150356.4ed2f16e%40telaviv1.shlomifish.org.
