NaCl/Emscripten

Manu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jan 9 02:10:24 PST 2015


On 9 January 2015 at 19:51, via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Friday, 9 January 2015 at 09:28:22 UTC, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>
>> I was gonna start hacking around to see what the limitations are with
>> Emscripten on D code tonight. Has anyone done any serious
>> investigation here?
>>
>> NaCl is a more useful target, but I think that will rely on a special
>> build of LDC... has there been discussion about that before?
>
>
> I have read the standard on ASM.js and some on NaCl. I think you will run
> into trouble with the GC on both NaCl and ASM.js. If you don't target
> ASM.js, then you probably could a completely new backend for D that use the
> standard javascript collector and still get some of the benefits. Remember
> that only Firefox support ASM.js.

I can probably get by with @nogc. There's no threading in asm.js
either, so that might be a spanner. Maybe -betterc would be usable out
of the box...


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