[FRIAM] FW: Partial WebAssembly backend

[Gillian Densmore]

lol and I'm wating for a pythonscript with processing..because python (for
me) is really fun to learn.



On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 10:56 AM, Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net> wrote:

> Yup, WebAsm is now enabled in modern browsers, thanks to a stable API for
> several releases. It's amazing how quickly this was defined and got
> implemented! (Unlike es6 modules, es2015, going on 2 years late!).
>
> An interesting intro:
>   https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/02/a-cartoon-intro-to-webassembly/
> Four browsers commit to current API (also above)
>   https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webassembly/
> 2017Feb/0002.html
> .. and it looks like latest dev releases have it turned on by default,
> rather than via flags.
>
> It's not gonna kill JavaScript but it may provide entry for other
> languages, as long as they can be compiled to LLVM (Low Level Virtual
> Machine). The issue is getting the standard libraries converted. C/C++ are
> go, as I understand it. I think Fortran too!
>
>    -- Owen
>
> On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 9:40 AM, Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: binutils-owner at sourceware.org [mailto:binutils-owner at sourceware.org]
>> On Behalf Of Pip Cet
>> Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2017 9:30 AM
>> To: binutils at sourceware.org
>> Subject: Partial WebAssembly backend
>>
>> I'd like to announce a WebAssembly backend for the GNU toolchain
>> (binutils, gcc, glibc) that I've been working on for a while.
>>
>> WebAssembly (https://www.w3.org/community/webassembly/) is an object
>> file format for a virtual machine implementing conventional 32-bit
>> integer/64-bit floating-point arithmetic. Version 1 has been released on
>> February 28 (https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webassembly/
>> 2017Feb/0002.html),
>> and enabled in various browsers, including Mozilla.
>>
>> This binutils port produces and deals with ELF files containing
>> WebAssembly code; WebAssembly modules (in the WebAssembly object file
>> format) can be output using special linker scripts and -Obinary, but they
>> cannot be used as input for any of the binutils programs at present.
>>
>> (While the gcc port, in particular, makes some decisions that negatively
>> affect performance, the binutils port is quite general and should permit
>> the assembly, linking, and manipulation of all WebAssembly code, provided
>> it is still encapsulated in ELF files).
>>
>> The code is at https://github.com/pipcet/binutils-gdb, included from the
>> larger project at https://github.com/pipcet/asmjs. Some documentation is
>> available at https://github.com/pipcet/asmjs/blob/everything/wasm32.org
>> (specific to the wasm32 target) and https://github.com/pipcet/asmj
>> s/blob/everything/asmjs.org (for all three targets: asmjs, wasm32, and
>> wasm64). The GitHub sources include support for using asm.js instead of
>> wasm, and some rudimentary support for simulating a 64-bit machine using
>> wasm.
>>
>> I'd appreciate any questions, comments or advice, and in particular I'd
>> like to ask whether it is possible in theory to include this backend in the
>> standard GNU binutils distribution; some work would be required on my end
>> to do that, and I'm not sure it's worth the effort if there is no chance of
>> inclusion at the end of the process.
>>
>> If anyone else has been or is planning to work on a WebAssembly backend,
>> it would be great to hear from them, and maybe some of my code could be
>> reused for that.
>>
>> Pip Cet
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