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Re:MNIST training: Showdown between JavaScript and WebAssembly by seanmcdirmid on Sunday March 11, 2018 @03:03PM (#16564270)
Is SIMD going to close that performance gap for a problem that otherwise fits well on a GPU? Wouldn't the ideal by WASM support for GPU access?
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Re:MNIST training: Showdown between JavaScript and WebAssembly by fulafel on Sunday March 11, 2018 @03:28PM (#16564367)
Indeed WASM supports GPU access through the normal JS WebGL API. Many asm.js/WebAssembly apps use the GPU in this way.

Though compiling WebAssembly to GPU code would be a very interesting thing to explore, too.

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Re:MNIST training: Showdown between JavaScript and WebAssembly by nsthorat on Sunday March 11, 2018 @03:48PM (#16564447)
This probably won't buy you anything. The API you still have is WebGL, and JS is not the bottleneck.
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