On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Brian Smith <br...@briansmith.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Robert O'Callahan <rob...@ocallahan.org> > wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Brian Smith <br...@briansmith.org> > wrote: > >> It seems likely that if something like Moz2D became the standard API > then > >> we'd be able to optimize it more easily than we'd be able to optimize > an API > >> that worked much differently than Moz2D. > > > > No, because asm.js code must go through Web platform APIs, and the Web > > platform API you would implement cairo bindings on top of is canvas-2D, > and > > that's fixed in stone > > I don't think it is fixed in stone that asm.js code must go through > Web Platform APIs. I believe the requirement is that it must be > possible to translate asm.js code into Web Platform APIs in a way > where the result works reasonably. AFAICT, there's nothing technically > stopping us from implementing any kind of specially-optimized > passthrough logic for any particular API, and also I think that idea > is compatible politically with our stance on asm.js, compared to > "ActiveG." > One of the by-products of the Shumway project is going to be a fairly general-purpose framework for composition and layerization that we explicitly want to make useful for game development, too. It might be possible and useful to make it directly usable from asm.js code, too, though the exact shape this would have isn't immediately clear to me. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
