s2wasm, what distinguishes --global-base from --allocate-stack ?

[Jean Valjean]

Hey there,

I guess my question is pretty straight but: For s2wasm, what distinguishes 
--global-base from --allocate-stack ?

I don't really understand the purpose of --allocate-stack (wasm has its own 
way to allocate variable on the stack with «set_local») and I guess it's 
something related to --global-base.

Thanks,

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Re: -s EXPORTED_FUNCTIONS and -s ONLY_MY_CODE=1 -s WASM=1

[Jean Valjean]

Also, is it safe to think «-s WASM=1 -s SIDE MODULE=2» will stay maintained 
in future release? Should I move to the vanilla LLVM ?

On Thursday, August 24, 2017 at 8:01:39 PM UTC+2, Jean Valjean wrote:
>
> Sorry, I forgot to say I use the *-s ONLY_MY_CODE=1 -s WASM=1 -s 
> SIDE_MODULE=2* parameters, and *-s ONLY_MY_CODE=1* works well with *-s 
> SIDE_MODULE=2*, also, it produces a lightweight *.wasm* output.
>
> Since the 1.37.20, emscripten is now able to deal with *-s 
> EXPORTED_FUNCTIONS*. It's fine for me now.
>
> On Thursday, August 24, 2017 at 5:35:10 AM UTC+2, Jean Valjean wrote:
>>
>> Hello there :)
>>
>> Right now, -s EXPORTED_FUNCTIONS doesn't seem to work with Standalone 
>> webassembly (provided by -s ONLY_MY_CODE=1 -s WASM=1 ). The code exports a 
>> lot of functions and it makes the wasm output really big. Is there an 
>> available parameter for this ?
>>
>> Bye
>>
>

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Re: -s EXPORTED_FUNCTIONS and -s ONLY_MY_CODE=1 -s WASM=1

[Alon Zakai]

I'm not sure if ONLY_MY_CODE works with wasm - did you find that documented
somewhere? We might need to update that if so.

What could work is the standalone wasm approach, see
https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki/WebAssembly-Standalone (but that
is experimental, so still in development).

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 8:35 PM, Jean Valjean  wrote:

> Hello there :)
>
> Right now, -s EXPORTED_FUNCTIONS doesn't seem to work with Standalone
> webassembly (provided by -s ONLY_MY_CODE=1 -s WASM=1 ). The code exports a
> lot of functions and it makes the wasm output really big. Is there an
> available parameter for this ?
>
> Bye
>
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Re: Local stack allocated arrays, and stack management in WebAssembly code

[Alon Zakai]

You can look at the wasm generated for that function (using wasm-dis in
binaryen or wasm2wast in wabt, etc.).

If you also want to look at LLVM IR, you don't need to wait for the wasm
backend. Are you compiling with emscripten? Then just tell it to emit
bitcode, -o name.bc instead of js or html. If not with emscripten, but you
are using clang, then you can tell it -emit-llvm.

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 8:10 PM,  wrote:

> OK.
>
> "Looking at the generated IR code can confirm" ==> do you mean : LLVM IR
> yes ? I don't really understand how I can check the IR code then... Maybe
> we have to wait for the LLVM wasm backend to be ready, and compare the LLVM
> IR ==> wasm step (and speed of resulting code) with the speed of the code
> generated by our own direct Faust wasm backend?
>
> Le mercredi 23 août 2017 20:53:23 UTC+1, Alon Zakai a écrit :
>>
>> It might be cache locality. Otherwise there is nothing magical about the
>> stack in both native code and wasm, it's just another region of memory,
>> reading and writing from it is the same as reading or writing anywhere else
>> (again, minus locality issues - which might be different in wasm).
>>
>> If not cache locality, it could be that the C++ compiler's optimizer
>> happens to do better on your stack version. Looking at the generated IR
>> code can confirm. This seems more likely to me.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 11:22 AM,  wrote:
>>
>>> Refining the question then (I'm discussion here at the Web Audio
>>> Conference with Paul Adenot working on WebAudio at Mozilla...).
>>>
>>> It appears that when compiling from Faust to a C++ class, having those
>>> arrays allocated on the stack (when we can afford it because they contain a
>>> state that does not live outside of the function scope), the code is faster
>>> compared to when we move those arrays as class fields. With Paul we were
>>> exploring reasons for that: better cache locality ? faster access of data
>>> allocated on the stack compared to the same data in the class field so
>>> allocated in the heap?
>>>
>>> Anyway: since in WebAssembly the stack is basically a part of the wasm
>>> module memory block, then is seems that we'll never be able to achieve this
>>> kind of "when compiled in C++, local stack data is faster to access than
>>> the same data on the heap..." property. Or is this part of the wasm
>>> compilation step strategy ?
>>>
>>> Paul told me that Luke Wagner of Benjamin Bouvier at Mozilla could
>>> possibly answer this kind of "wasm compilation strategy" questions. Do they
>>> read this group?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>> Le mardi 15 août 2017 16:50:28 UTC+1, Alon Zakai a écrit :

 Yes, in the end all the data has to live in the wasm memory (or in wasm
 globals). So it's basically up to you how to use that memory, which is sort
 of like defining your own ABI, if you choose not to use an existing one.

 On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 12:43 AM,  wrote:

> We are directly compiling to wasm. Our code also generates a data
> structure with fields (scalar and arrays). A solution we may use for now 
> is
> to move those stack allocated data in the structure, since I understand
> that in any case the data finally live in a wasm memory region (this this
> should not cause any performances changes yes ?). But having support in
> binaryen could be interesting, although it somewhat link the generated 
> wasm
> model to binaryen API, something we may ant to avoid in case the generated
> module is deployed in another context.
>
>
> Le lundi 14 août 2017 18:42:40 UTC+2, Alon Zakai a écrit :
>>
>> What emscripten would do is set aside a range of memory for the
>> stack, and maintain a stack pointer. Then "foo" would be assigned a 
>> region
>> at the top of the stack on entry to that function, and the stack would be
>> unwound when the function is exited.
>>
>> Are you compiling directly to wasm yourself? Or to LLVM bitcode? If
>> bitcode then you can easily reuse the emscripten runtime to do a lot of
>> this for you. Otherwise you may need to do more yourself, but perhaps we
>> should find ways to make that easier (e.g., maybe in binaryen's APIs for
>> generating wasm we could add stack support).
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 8:16 AM,  wrote:
>>
>>> OK. Then how the equivalent C code should be generated then ? Where
>>> is "foo" array memory supposed to be allocated ?
>>>
>>> void test()
>>> {
>>> float foo[36];
>>> float* foo_ptr = [4];
>>> ...
>>> code that uses foo_ptr
>>> ...
>>> }
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Le lundi 14 août 2017 17:07:38 UTC+2, jj a écrit :

 Stack is optional. If you are targeting Wasm directly, you do not
 need
 to have a stack at all if your language domain does not need 

Using custom C and CXX library with emscripten

[Gaurav Dewan]

We can ask emscripten(clang) to use custom C/cxx header in this way:

set EMMAKEN_NO_SDK=1
em++ -Xclang -nobuiltininc -Xclang -nostdsysteminc -Xclang 
-isystemc:\em\emsdk-portable\emscripten\CUSTOM\system\include\libcxx 
-Xclang -isystemc:\em\emsdk-portable\emscripten\CUSTOM\system\include\libc 
 a.cpp

How can we ask it to use library binaries(cached libcxx bc) from custom 
cache locations (instead of /.emscripten_cache/asmjs? (we want 
different custom optimized c++ libraries for different c++ to wasm projects_

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