hh wrote:
Richard G. wrote:
I'm seeing a growing number of JS->WASM converters out there ...
Where? Please cite some.
My bad: the pages I'd seen in listings turn out to be more, shall we
say, aspirational.
And the more I read about WASM the less it seems some sort of magic pony
I'd imagined it to be, more complex to compile to and of more limited
value than I'd thought.
Apparently Emscripten has a WASM output option, but it's not as simple
as flipping a checkbox.
So I'm no longer in the Waiting for WASM camp; JIT compilation in both
Firefox and Chrome is pretty good as-is, and WASM makes a fine sidecar
for some tasks previously written in C++ but doesn't do much for JS work.
... seemingly designed to replace a JS lib with a WASM version
that is functionally identical, just smaller and faster.
I'm wondering if anyone has tried this with the generated JS
version of the LC engine.
Have you ever looked into that generated js file?
It is extremely hard to adjust manually anything -- that's probably
why LC has until now not even support for the modifier keys in HTML5
though that's very simple to get directly from js.
So a "converter" that requires manual adjustments is useless.
I certainly wasn't advocating manual work, just has an over-caffeinated
moment of unwarranted optimism with regard to the state of WASM tools
and its role.
After my evening's reading I'm over it now. There is no magic pony.
Thanks for the roadside sobriety check on the Information Superhighway. :)
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
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