Re:Experimental support for WebAssembly in V8
by tadlan on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @10:53AM
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Question please: Even though there is stated desire to support python etc vm, this will be hampered by the need for the client to download the large VM vs native code that can be distributed itself, correct?
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Re:Experimental support for WebAssembly in V8
by jfbastien on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @11:45AM
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Correct, though we're working on dynamic linking to ease the pain, and improving compilers such as LLVM so that the generated code is smaller.
Re:Experimental support for WebAssembly in V8
by tadlan on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @11:50AM
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Thanks. I'm not familiar with dynamic linking. What will that do?
Re:Experimental support for WebAssembly in V8
by binji on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @01:49PM
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There's a response above this one from titzer describing it, or you can read more here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/DynamicLin...