Re:Atom's new concurrency-friendly buffer implementation
by maxbrunsfeld on Friday October 13, 2017 @11:35PM
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We are already able to run native code in Atom via node's native extensions, so we have no reason to wait for WebAssembly.
The only benefit of WebAssembly would be if we wanted to port Atom to work in a regular web browser. We can even already do that without WebAssembly by compiling the superstring library to JS with emscripten. This works today and benchmarks show that it's already quite fast, but I think WebAssembly will make it even more efficient.
The only benefit of WebAssembly would be if we wanted to port Atom to work in a regular web browser. We can even already do that without WebAssembly by compiling the superstring library to JS with emscripten. This works today and benchmarks show that it's already quite fast, but I think WebAssembly will make it even more efficient.