Re: [gwt-contrib] Java to WebAssembly Compiler

2015-06-22 Thread 'John Stalcup' via GWT Contributors
My thoughts are pretty much exactly what Colin said. Without GC it's not a reasonable target for Java cross compilation because you'd have to embed your own GC implementation into the output. That being said, they plan to add GC, which will make it more attractive. But WebAssembly would probably

[gwt-contrib] Java to WebAssembly Compiler

2015-06-22 Thread Joel Handwell
- Luke Wagner wrote a post on his blog to report that his team at Mozilla have started working with Chromium, Edge and WebKit engineers on creating a new standard, WebAssembly, that defines a portable, size- and load-time-efficient format and execution model specifically designed to serve as a

Re: [gwt-contrib] Java to WebAssembly Compiler

2015-06-22 Thread Colin Alworth
Without GC, I think its going to be a bit of a non-starter - the same issues that apply to compiling to asm.js apply here too. I've heard a few ideas floated around to just compile specific methods to asm.js, and those same ideas seem that they could work, but the really hard part is isolating