I believe that wasm is the future, because you don't have to install anything and computations are done in the browser client, they do not require ressources from a server (except for the initial download of the wasm file). Giac/Xcas does that since many years now, (initially it was a request for Geogebra), for example here is the integral from another topic in a single URL (you can also embed it in an email from Xcas web interface, and it's certainly possible to do the same for other communication channels) [url=https://www-fourier.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/%7eparisse/xcasfr.html#exec&filename=%40session&python=1&radian=1&cas=0,0,f%3A%3Dintegrate(x%2F(x%5E5%2Ba%5E5))&cas=0,200,simplify(diff(f))&]session Xcas[/url] BTW, I presented that to Bill Allombert a few years ago at a PARI meeting in Grenoble, and he decided to support wasm target for PARI.
On Thursday, June 22, 2023 at 11:41:43 PM UTC+2 William Stein wrote: > On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 2:15 PM Michael Orlitzky <mic...@orlitzky.com> > wrote: > >> On Thu, 2023-06-22 at 13:56 -0700, William Stein wrote: >> > >> > (5) provide a WebAssembly option >> > >> > WebAssembly is typically about half the speed as native code (at best), >> but >> > it is highly cross platform and self contained. WebAssembly is >> difficult >> > mainly when you have to deal with the OS somehow (e.g., filesystem, >> > networking, etc.), and fortunately, a lot of the code in Sage is math >> > libraries that support a non-threaded mode, so are particularly easy to >> > port to WebAssembly. A good example is Pari, which is one of "sage's >> > non-Python dependencies". >> > >> >> We always wind up back here. Are we building mathematics software, or >> signing on to run the world's most experimental linux distribution? >> > > WebAssembly is not an experimental linux distribution, and it has very > little overlap with linux distributions. The WebAssembly ecosystem is > built from the ground up, primarily on the LLVM (and Rust) toolchain, and > an ecosystem of free software that is much more liberally licensed (and > smaller) than what is typically in Linux distributions. WebAssembly > is neither better nor worse than Linux distributions; instead it is a > different thing that solves different problems. > > To pre-empt another potential misconception, WebAssembly is more helpful > for the needs of Sage than Java VM's because C/C++ can directly target > WebAssembly. > > William > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/667a39ae-dee3-49f1-931b-7ef9f5435e49n%40googlegroups.com.
