WebAssembly and JerryScript

[lemmaa]

Today, I read an article about WebAssembly.
Google, Microsoft, Mozilla And Others Team Up To Launch WebAssembly, A New Binary Format For The Web

What should we do for JerryScript with wasm?
Is it valuable for current target segment of JerryScript? or need to include to future roadmap?
Let’s discuss about it.

Other references

• [https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/HighLevelGoals.md]
• [https://brendaneich.com/2015/06/from-asm-js-to-webassembly/]

[zherczeg]

If I understand correctly WebAssembly and Ecmascript are completely independent. I think a separate engine should run WebAssembly. It is likely that this engine could do JIT compilation even on embedded systems.

[egavrin]

@zherczeg https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md#is-webassembly-trying-to-replace-javascript As I undertood from wiki, technically ES and WebAsm are separate, but should be interoperable.

This activity looks very promising to me, and we definitely should participate in it as soon as our projects will become public. Supporting of this technology may help us to reduce memory consumption and improve performance, which are the key features of our project.

As far as I understand, format of intermediate representation is not fixed yet:

• https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/MVP.md
• https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/AstSemantics.md
• https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/BinaryEncoding.md
• WebAssembly is going to become official back-end for LLVM according to decision of Chandler Carroth and Chris Lattner

We may start collaboration with WebAsm WG and align our goals. I suppose that after October of near this date we may sa

PS Currently, WG is missing the reference intepreter: WebAssembly/design#183

[zherczeg]

Yes, it opens some interesting opportunities. It would be interesting developing a JS parser in wasm which produces wasm code. Would solve a lot of problem.

[egavrin]

[WebAssembly] Skeleton WebAssembly target

[zherczeg]

We can repoen this issue if we start working on webassembly.

[haochenli]

I personally think that WebAssembly is a complement for Jerryscript, so do we have any plan to support it?