Does the D teams would like to increase the WASM support
Adam D Ruppe
destructionator at gmail.com
Fri Nov 18 02:06:41 UTC 2022
On Thursday, 17 November 2022 at 23:31:27 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Not sure how we'd do the GC part, though.
The stock druntime gc works so long as the wasm stack is empty.
llvm offers a shadow stack for this purpose, or I'm pretty sure
(and Sebastiaan agrees, we've both been swamped with day job work
but we chat every now and then a little) it'd work if we deferred
the mark/sweep for when the wasm stack is empty.
In other words, GC.collect would always ask for new memory from
the system as if the collection failed, but then queue it -
javascript `setTimeout(GC.collect, 0);` would do the job. Then it
collects when back to the event loop thus knowing the wasm work
is paused and the call stack empty, so all stored values are
available from memory.
Just like I said, I'm pretty swamped with work.... and when not
doing work I have a million other things to do. I have some use
case for webasm - it is kinda cool to put my little demo games
online - but it isn't a high priority.
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