Re: the looming wasm chasm was Re: Requiring SSE2 on all 32-bit x86 OSs

2016-05-22 Thread Lars Hansen
The baseline compiler has modest needs and should be able to target a simple wasm interpreter fairly easily. --lars On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 11:08 PM, Till Schneidereit < t...@tillschneidereit.net> wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 10:43 PM, Cameron Kaiser > wrote: > > > On 5/18/16 10:41 PM, Jan

Re: the looming wasm chasm was Re: Requiring SSE2 on all 32-bit x86 OSs

2016-05-22 Thread Till Schneidereit
On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 10:43 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: > On 5/18/16 10:41 PM, Jan de Mooij wrote: > >> They do get the baseline compiler, which can still be significantly >>> faster than the interpreter, but Ion requires SSE2. Since the runtime >>> detection does just turn Ion off altogether, I

the looming wasm chasm was Re: Requiring SSE2 on all 32-bit x86 OSs

2016-05-22 Thread Cameron Kaiser
On 5/18/16 10:41 PM, Jan de Mooij wrote: They do get the baseline compiler, which can still be significantly faster than the interpreter, but Ion requires SSE2. Since the runtime detection does just turn Ion off altogether, I don't know if we would gain much by removing it (the ability to disa