On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 3:40 PM Richard Fateman <fate...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It would be interesting to hear of a few benchmarks. What observations to > make? > > WASM advocates seem to hold that WASM code > executes fast and efficient. > >From what I remember people at work saying, wasm was about 2-3 times slower than the equivalent C/C++ code. Things may have changed since then. > > How long would one expect (under realistic constraints) a computer > system to take to download a complete > Common Lisp system + Maxima (compiled from Lisp to WASM?) into (say) a > Chrome browser? > Hard to know now what the size would be, but a stripped ecl binary for maxima is about 13 MB. That wouldn't be terrible to download, and it would be cached so you don't have to download it every time. > > There are many possible benchmarks to compare different features, like > bignum arithmetic, polynomial arithmetic, > input/output, the Maxima testsuite. > > > On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 11:17 AM Henry Baker <hbak...@pipeline.com> wrote: > >> Re: emscripten version of ECL: >> >> You can attempt to build it yourself: >> >> https://gitlab.com/embeddable-common-lisp/ecl/-/tree/emscripten >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Marius Gerbershagen <marius.gerbersha...@gmail.com> >> Sent: Jan 14, 2023 9:39 AM >> To: <maxima-disc...@lists.sourceforge.net> >> Cc: <gcl-devel@gnu.org> >> Subject: Re: [Maxima-discuss] gcl-2.6.13 released [stable] >> >> It's perhaps worth noting that ECL can be made to run in this way in a >> browser and will officially support WASM in the next release ( >> https://gitlab.com/embeddable-common-lisp/ecl/-/merge_requests/277). >> >> >> >> <snip> > > _______________________________________________ > Maxima-discuss mailing list > maxima-disc...@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/maxima-discuss > -- Ray
