WebAssembly becomes a W3C Recommendation

Re:WebAssembly becomes a W3C Recommendation by sehugg on Monday December 16, 2019 @01:26PM (#21805554)

I use it in a web worker to compile, assemble, and link C programs into 8-bit ROMs: https://8bitworkshop.com/

I was using asm.js in the past, but WASM gives a noticeable and necessary performance boost.

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Re:WebAssembly becomes a W3C Recommendation by chrismaltby on Monday December 16, 2019 @02:40PM (#21806367)

That looks awesome! I noticed that you don't have Game Boy on there, not sure if it's useful to you but I started to make a WebAssembly port of GBDK: https://github.com/chrismaltby/gbdk-emscripten which I was planning to use in my Game Boy game maker eventually https://www.gbstudio.dev/

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Re:WebAssembly becomes a W3C Recommendation by joeraut on Monday December 16, 2019 @01:40PM (#21805714)

This looks awesome, great project!

Which specific CPUs or applications that you emulate really take advantage of the performance boost that WASM provides?

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Re:WebAssembly becomes a W3C Recommendation by sehugg on Monday December 16, 2019 @03:59PM (#21807135)

Thanks -- we use Emscripten/WASM mainly for running command-line compilers/assemblers (like cc65 and SDCC).

Right now the emulators are all in JavaScript (except for MAME) which makes integrating with the IDE's debugging tools a little easier. It's performant enough for now, since we only have 8-bit platforms at low clock speeds.

Integrating a C emulation library like https://github.com/floooh/chips should be doable, since it doesn't have any dependencies.

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