On Friday, January 8, 2016 at 2:45:32 PM UTC+1, Ben L. Titzer wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > Consider this the official announcement of our Intent to Implement WASM > within V8! > > Rationale: > > 1. WASM is a cross-browser, cross-platform, emerging target for native > compilation that expands and improves upon asm.js, offering good code > density and fast run time. > 2. Implementing WASM directly in V8 allows the WASM engine to directly > generate TurboFan's IR for fast compilation and good code quality, reusing > a robust production JIT and runtime system. > 3. Integration with V8 allows fast calls (no embedder trampolines) between > WASM and JavaScript. > 4. The JavaScript API to access WASM functionality can be implemented > directly in V8. > 5. The primary developers of WASM in V8 are all V8 developers or close > collaborators. > > We've been working on this for quite some time and have recently merged > prototype code into V8 to make the development cycle easier. > https://crrev.com/4c5b3609fd4de3e0c1092373d1654862395ce40f > > > The WASM Feature tracking bug will be updated with important relevant V8 > CLs. > https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=575167 >
Can't tell you how excited I am about this. Awesome work V8 team! -- -- v8-users mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "v8-users" 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.
