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Stupid question from a non specialist. I see Intel in the list of parties. Does that mean hardware acceleration for wasm?
by cm2187 7y ago
Stupid question from a non specialist. I see Intel in the list of parties. Does that mean hardware acceleration for wasm?
- BubRoss 7y agoIt is meant to be compiled to native instructions, I don't think there is significant room for hardware acceleration.
- cm2187 7y agoI am talking from a position of ignorance, but intuitively I am sure the runtime does or will do lots of things, between the sandboxing, the linking, potential garbage collection, etc.
- BubRoss 7y agoIt isn't run through a run time, it is meant to be just in time compiled to native instructions. There isn't any garbage collection.
- JoshTriplett 7y agoAmong other things, yes; we're contributing to the SIMD support, for instance.
- markdog12 7y agoAnything beyond just the 128-bit SIMD yet? Last thing I seen on that was "Long SIMD" from here: https://webassembly.org/docs/future-features/ https://webassembly.org/docs/future-features/ And that was years ago. Seems like an awful waste to have many millions of cpus with avx for instance, wasted.
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