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erights / quasiParserGenerator

A template string tag for generating template string tags.
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Microses: bitfields, so microses is subset of asm.js #3

Open erights opened 7 years ago

erights commented 7 years ago

Microses is not a syntactic subset of asm.js anyway. @metaweta , the question is, if we lift the bitfield restrictions, can legal asm.js easily be transformed into equivalent asm.js programs that are also microses programs? If not, what other restrictions would we need to lift?

metaweta commented 7 years ago

Will have to check, but here's the specification: http://asmjs.org/spec/latest/

metaweta commented 7 years ago

Current support: http://caniuse.com/#feat=asmjs

metaweta commented 7 years ago

I looked over the validation section, and as far as I can tell, if you lift the restriction on bitwise operators, the rest of asm.js code can be transformed into microses. In particular, asm.js is pretty much restricted to manipulating numbers and typed arrays, not strings or other kinds of objects.

erights commented 6 years ago

At https://github.com/Agoric/TinySES we list an additional reason for TinySES to include bitwise operators: the addition of BigInts to JS and TinySES.

Leaving open here for now, but this issue should move to https://github.com/Agoric/TinySES