WebAssembly?

[Blestan]

asm.js was only a proof of concept to run wasm... today the web engine of mozila firefox runs wasm code and js code in the same vm that doesnot mean that wasm is compiled to js or js is compiled to wasm... both are executed by the same vm... wasm does not have dom acess because of its obviuous more low level nature and it needs trampoline functions to acess dom and js apis.

check this article
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/03/why-webassembly-is-faster-than-asm-js/

[Thaddy]

Forgive me if I misunderstood, (NOT!) but point 3 in that link? Isn't that exactly what I described?

The point I was trying to make is that Object Pascal is a strongly typed language.
Object Pascal can output to an intermediate form (as an example js) that can theoretically be fed into webassembly toolchain. (which takes basically a transform as a starting point)

[Blestan]

no problem... your only confusion is/was the assumption that webassembly toolchain is Only asm.js based. this was true for several years till several months.. my mistake was that i was thinking that the llvm ir feature is binaryen optimizer based or even better it some how "magicly" "injected" in the vm for execution..but it is emsripten optimizer based and basicly goes thru the asm.js... anyway object pascal has at least 2 very strong advantages that makes it very suitable for direct wasm generation:
1. strong typing - wasm is also strong typed target.
2. manual memory managment...the flat memory mdel of wasm does not involve garbage collection

[Thaddy]

Your confusion is that I did not mention asm.js. I mentioned the API for webassembler is ECMA script 5.0 based. Basically a strongly typed (and therefor a subset, because some dynamic features are missing) of Javascript. Can be done. Half of it is done. You can use strongly typed Object Pascal code to generate Javascript already. And that has the same limitations regarding dynamic language features.

[Blestan]

as once Nikita Khrushchev said " when we say Lennin we undestand the Party and when we say The Party we understand  Lennin .... and so for 40 years we say one thing but we understand another" )) in this case is js asm.js and ecma script ... happy that finaly we are on the same page for wasm... and it will be great to have it as target ..cheers!

[engkin]

as once Nikita Khrushchev said " when we say Lennin we undestand the Party and when we say The Party we understand  Lennin .... and so for 40 years we say one thing but we understand another"

Nikita Khrushchev is better known for his shoe banging in the United Nations General Assembly.

Video: https://youtu.be/l4JhyHz3M5U

[Thaddy]

Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]

1. 192.168.0.1:2/lea 10.1.10.100:8066/eax

[Benjiro]

Here is a interesting topic where they use C# as front end language thanks to the magic of Webassembly, LLVM and "Dot Net Anywhere".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiLAE6HMr10&feature=youtu.be&t=31m36s

Lovely ...

[Igor Kokarev]

Any news about WebAssembly support in Freepascal as a target for compilation?