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- Add stack-walking support for asm.js code so that asm.js functions show up in:
- The builtin FF profiler (bug 947996)
- Error.stack.
- Standardize then implement SIMD extensions to JS (bug 894105) and then incorporate into asm.js
- Land experimental SharedArrayBuffer (pref'd off, bug 933001) and use this to add experimental pthreads support to Emscripten and evaluate on threaded codebases in preparation for a standards proposal.
Planned next projects
- Reevaluate throughput now that we have float32: When we are >2x native, why? Any more categorical fixes (other than SIMD)?
- Remove parsing limitations associated with huge JS files:
- Fix lazy-parsing/decompression memory-spike and performance hit for huge js files (bug 938385).
- Remove num-locals (bug 916612) and num-lines (bug 916564) parser limits.
- Mitigate 32-bit OOM problems: (bug 865959)
- Add && and || to asm.js to avoid sub-optimal control flow (bug 919052).
- Add missing math constants (bug 878488)
- Make the asm.js informative console messages not show up as "Error:"
Possible next optimization projects
- Experiment with using LLVM as the compiler backend for asm.js code.
- Compress asm.js cache entries
- Further improve load-time:
- Start general JS parsing before the entire JS script has completed downloading so that asm.js compilation can overlap
- asm.js parser: Avoid building an intermediate parse tree; type check during recursive descent bug 854061
- Improve heap access performance : bug 865516, bug 865523, bug 869606, bug 870743, bug 897425
- Further improve FFI calls : bug 882399, bug 886411, also stop spilling non-volatile registers
- Improve x86/ARM asm.js-to-asm.js ABI : bug 861785
- Extend the asm.js signal handler tricks to:
- Remove stack overflow checks
- Remove idiv branching
- Remove double-to-int conversion branching (see also bug 818750)
Possible asm.js extensions (that don't extend JS)
- Extend asm.js to better support dynamically linking asm.js modules (a mutable, callable array argument to asm.js module, like the PLT)
- Add enough try/catch to asm.js to allow compilation of C++ exceptions using the zero-cost implementation strategy
- Add DataView to avoid the alignment mask on asm.js heap accesses (this is mostly a problem of DataView being slow in all browsers)
Proposed future JS features that would be useful to asm.js
- ArrayBuffer.prototype.resize (bug 927182): to allow growable heap
- ArrayBuffer.prototype.discard (bug 855669): to allow madvise(DONTNEED)
- FunctionPromise: bug 854627
- Typed Objects: (Typed Objects)
- This feature comes with float32/uint64/int64 value types, which would be useful as scalar types in asm.js.
- Formalize Typed Object "class declarations" in asm.js which could make asm.js a target for JVM/CLR/TypeScript (and allow these languages to reuse the builtin JS GC)
Current asm.js spec bugs
https://github.com/dherman/asm.js/issues?state=open