Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler

Re:Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler by avaer on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @01:33PM (#16170432)

I'll do you another. If 2D screens ever cease being the main way of interacting with computers, something like a DOM-less WASM will take over consumer computing, and the DOM will get washed away in the process.

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Re:Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler by dfox on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @02:02PM (#16170695)

Moving from 2D to 3D does not imply that applications will all use immediate mode. And having some standard way of doing retained mode 3D (which is the major feature provided typical 3D game engines and there is no reason why DOM could not be at least partially used as the underlying data model) seems like one of the requirements for that shift to actually happen.

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Re:Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler by rictic on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @02:39PM (#16171047)

For an example of this model today, take a look at the wonderful A-Frame library for doing 3D scenes, including web VR.

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Re:Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler by dragonwriter on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @02:06PM (#16170741)

Or something like X3dom will take center stage.

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