New opportunities for D => ASM.js

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 14 May 2014 at 09:49:21 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 13 May 2014 at 17:30:44 UTC, Nicolas F. wrote:
>> It also doesn't do multithreading, as far as I know.
>
> HTML5 support Web Workers running in isolates.
>
>> Also three times slower for peak performance is not 
>> near-native.
>
> They claim "1.5", but I think that is questionable.
>
>> The only good idea that I see in this is that it allows you to 
>> do client-side web-development without having to use JS.
>
> If you have a framework that allows you to compile to PNACL, 
> asm.js, iOS and Android using WebGL/OpenGL 2ES then you are 
> pretty close to cross platform for interactive apps. Better 
> than Flash, that's pretty good.
>
> Unity apparently compiles to asm.js:
>
> http://beta.unity3d.com/jonas/AngryBots/

They do it via IL -> C++ -> Emscripten.

http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/04/29/on-the-future-of-web-publishing-in-unity/