Re: [whatwg] Proposal: toDataURL “image/png” compression control

On 5/29/14, 5:13 PM, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> Assembly language is inherently incompatible with the Web.

A SIMD API, however is not.  Under the hood, it can be implemented in 
terms of MMX, SSE, NEON, or just by forgetting about the SIMD bit and 
pretending like you have separate operations.  In particular, you could 
have a SIMD API that desugars to plain JS as the default implementation 
in browsers but that JITs can recognize and vectorize as they desire. 
This sort of API will happen, for sure.

No opinion on the PNG encoder thing.

-Boris

Received on Thursday, 29 May 2014 21:22:27 UTC