V8 Release 5.1

#1

Post by kenOfYugen » Sat, Apr 23, 2016, 12:38 PM UTC

V8 Release 5.1
v8project.blogspot.com

Re: V8 Release 5.1

#2

Post by hacker_9 » Sat, Apr 23, 2016, 1:08 PM UTC

"WASM

5.1 has a preliminary support for WASM. You can enable it via the flag --expose_wasm in d8. Alternatively you can try out the WASM demos with Chrome 51 (Beta Channel)."

The future is coming fast.

Re: V8 Release 5.1

#3

Post by BinaryBullet » Sat, Apr 23, 2016, 1:14 PM UTC

Thanks for the link. I didn't know about Orinoco, and I'm excited about WASM.

...and performance improvements are always good!

Re: V8 Release 5.1

#4

Post by qaq » Sat, Apr 23, 2016, 1:52 PM UTC

hacker_9 wrote: post #2

"WASM 5.1 has a preliminary support for WASM. You can enable it via the flag --expose_wasm in d8. Alternatively you can try out the WASM demos with Chrome 51 (Beta Channel)." The future is coming fast.

Y but how long will it take to get to the point where enough users have browsers that support WASM ? 10 years?

Re: V8 Release 5.1

#5

Post by sdegutis » Sat, Apr 23, 2016, 1:56 PM UTC

qaq wrote: post #4

hacker_9 wrote: post #2

"WASM 5.1 has a preliminary support for WASM. You can enable it via the flag --expose_wasm in d8. Alternatively you can try out the WASM demos with Chrome 51 (Beta Channel)." The future is coming fast.

Y but how long will it take to get to the point where enough users have browsers that support WASM ? 10 years?

Even if that's the case, I hope to still be a developer in 10 or 15 years from now, and I'm betting people will still be using the internet then too.

Re: V8 Release 5.1

#6

Post by inglor » Sat, Apr 23, 2016, 1:59 PM UTC

In case anyone is wondering, NodeJS v6 is right around the corner with V8 5.x. Node is going to get a serious boost of ES2015 features.

Including but not limited to: Proper tail recursion (^_^) and destructuring.

Tracked at http://node.green

We don't have an ES2015 features page up to date yet, but it's going to be ready any day now (and we're going to link to node.green anyway most likely).

Re: V8 Release 5.1

#7

Post by qaq » Sat, Apr 23, 2016, 1:59 PM UTC

sdegutis wrote: post #5

qaq wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Y but how long will it take to get to the point where enough users have browsers that support WASM ? 10 years?

Even if that's the case, I hope to still be a developer in 10 or 15 years from now, and I'm betting people will still be using the internet then too.

Yep just wish things could move along faster :)

Re: V8 Release 5.1

#8

Post by echeese » Sat, Apr 23, 2016, 2:00 PM UTC

qaq wrote: post #4

hacker_9 wrote: post #2

"WASM 5.1 has a preliminary support for WASM. You can enable it via the flag --expose_wasm in d8. Alternatively you can try out the WASM demos with Chrome 51 (Beta Channel)." The future is coming fast.

Y but how long will it take to get to the point where enough users have browsers that support WASM ? 10 years?

There will be a polyfill for unsupported browsers. It should be easy to convert most, if not all wasm to asm.js, which can be executed by any browser with typed arrays

Re: V8 Release 5.1

#9

Post by kingsleymani » Sat, Apr 23, 2016, 2:01 PM UTC

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Re: V8 Release 5.1

#10

Post by kingsleymani » Sat, Apr 23, 2016, 2:02 PM UTC

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