Porting to Emscripten
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Porting to Emscripten
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#2So when can we see Firefox ported to Emscripten?
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#3So when can we see Firefox ported to Emscripten?
While you are waiting: http://badassjs.com/post/73526882798/webkit-js-its-happening...
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#4So when can we see Firefox ported to Emscripten?
That is a more serious question than it first appears at first glance.
Firefox, GCC, cat, gzip, PovRay are all things that should be potentially doable. Each one will not necessarily _have_ to be done, but the idea should be embraced to see if they are possible. If there is any reason why these things are impossible, that should be an area to focus on. Why is it not possible? Should it be possible, and if so, how to make it possible.
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#5This is great news, it feels like the future is finally starting to arrive. Check this out: http://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/
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#6I can't wait until the tooling gets to where I don't have to debug natively first.
I perticularly ran into issue dealing with unimplemented functions in some POSIX libraries. Then I tried to use the source maps in a debug build to find out when and where they were being used during runtime because they would stop the rest of the program. Unfortunately I couldn't compile the debug build because emscripten kept getting stuck in the linking phase (I had to force quit). I hope one day this all works as well as the Android NDK.
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#7One thing missing from the article: If you have a fullscreen mode, provide an alternative to the escape key for opening menus or whatever action you had bound to that key, because the browser interprets escape as a command to exit fullscreen mode. Plenty of the Humble Bundle asmjs games didn't get this.
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#8This looked like great news until I came to "Heavy use of threads is also going to be a problem since Emscripten doesn't currently support them."
Sorry, this is a total showstopper for me. I'll check back when Emscripten actually lets me use more than 1/4 or 1/8 of the CPU.
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#9This looked like great news until I came to "Heavy use of threads is also going to be a problem since Emscripten doesn't currently support them." Sorry, this is a total showstopper for me. I'll check back when Emscripten actually lets me use more than 1/4 or 1/8 of the CPU.
This is because of how JavaScript is implemented, you can't use threads in JS like you can in a C++ program.
Re: Porting to Emscripten
#10This looked like great news until I came to "Heavy use of threads is also going to be a problem since Emscripten doesn't currently support them." Sorry, this is a total showstopper for me. I'll check back when Emscripten actually lets me use more than 1/4 or 1/8 of the CPU.
According to this document Jukka Jylänki is working on it:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/t3AwIGGaM-4Z9UZM2jpF6...