- From: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 16:28:08 -0500
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: whatwg <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > 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. > I doubt it, at least with performance competitive with native assembly. We certainly shouldn't delay features while we hope for it. -- Glenn Maynard
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