Edit high level goals based on recent discussions. #1
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| developer feedback, such as: | ||
| - Concurrency and parallelism through threads and SIMD. | ||
| - Dynamic loading. | ||
| - Finer-grained control on memory managment. |
| 1. Define a portable, size- and load-time-efficient binary format to serve as a | ||
| web compilation target. | ||
| 2. Expose a format which can be compiled to execute at native speed and take | ||
| full advantage of a CPU's capabilities. |
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I wonder if we need a whole bullet for this or we can fold it into item 1 which states the basic qualities we expect. How about appending "with native performance" to the end of item 1?
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@lukewagner I addressed your comments, please take a look since I updated some of the upcoming features. /cc @davidsehr for a second look. |
| 5. Design to integrate well with the existing web platform: | ||
| 1. Define a portable, size- and load-time-efficient binary format to serve as a | ||
| web compilation target which can be compiled to execute at native speed and | ||
| take full advantage of a CPU's capabilities. |
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I wonder if "full advantage" won't set us up for criticism that we don't support My-Favorite-Obscure-ARM-op. We're inherently going to be making tradeoffs about what is common/useful which means not achieve 100%, but hopefully a very useful 75% that gets us 98% of native perf (pulling numbers out of thin air) on most workloads. How about "... at native speed by taking advantage of common hardware capabilities." which is perhaps even too conservative, but I'd rather over-deliver :)
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To help out, I've thrown up V1.md and EssentialPostV1Features.md as suggested above. I'll start filling those in from the GDoc while we continue to iterate on the wording of this doc and then we can iterate on those. If you think there is a better way to structure, I'm quite open to that too. |
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Also added a FutureFeatures.md for the general not-immediately-post-v.1 list. |
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Closing in favor of a separate PR. |
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