News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Google Goes Native: Offers Sneak Peak at C++ Support in Chromium. Parent comment

Re: Google Goes Native: Offers Sneak Peak at C++ Support ... by ed on Saturday May 15, 2010 @12:31AM (#1349352)
I believe there isn't an install process. But you could always fire up a nightly to test ;)

My guess is this won't see mainstream distribution until they've removed the x86 instruction dependency. I think the shipping version will use LLVM bytecode rather than x86 machine code. (this has been hinted at, too.)

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re: Google Goes Native: Offers Sneak Peak at C++ Support ... by sketerpot on Saturday May 15, 2010 @02:17AM (#1349472)
You're probably right about their desire to get rid of the x86 dependency. Distributing LLVM bytecode really is a better way; it'll allow NaCl pages to be viewable on ARM-using devices as well as x86-using PCs without needing to provide separate binaries. As the makers of Android and Chrome OS, Google probably would like to avoid locking ARM out.
[ Parent | on HN ]