[V8 team proposal] The future of WebAssembly

[mathiasbynens]

Session Title: The future of WebAssembly

Session Abstract:

Discuss current threading proposal:

• Roughly equivalent to SharedArrayBuffer + Web Workers
• Atomics and futexes give native-level performance for low-level concurrency
• Still in “WASM is a machine” style, no new concurrency constructs
• Why is this hard for anything other than low-level shared memory?

Current thinking on integration with the DOM/JS:

• Opaque references to JS objects can flow through WASM code
• Access must be accomplished through imported JavaScript functions

Approximate Duration: 30 minutes

Your Name: Ben Titzer

Your Twitter handle: v8js

Requirements: [x] No [ ] Yes => Please share what do you need.

Complexity: [ ] Advanced [x] Intermediate [x] Beginner

[mathiasbynens]

For Nov 13.

[littledan]

FWIW I'm starting out getting involved in Wasm; I could come if it is helpful, but nowhere near as much of an expert as Ben.

[flaki]

/cc @badboy

[jhnns]

There's some overlap with #9 but I still think it's better to keep them separated.