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by sitkack 4570 days ago
The js app performance will be a "solved" problem in 4 years.

* WebCL will be widely deployed, better penetration than current WebGL

* Web workers will be able to share typed arrays by reference (see Mozilla's Transferable Objects)

* Other vectorization libraries will be available (Rivertrail)

   http://blog.aventine.se/post/16318162396/simd
   http://www.khronos.org/webcl/
   https://github.com/RiverTrail/RiverTrail
1 comments
jnbiche 4570 days ago
Why do you think WebCL will be widely-deployed in 4 years? I used to think that, not I'm not so sure. It's sure not been given a warm welcome by any of the major browsers. I'm not sure I share your optimism.

I do agree that Transferable Objects will be a tremendous boon, and should address all the shared memory thread complaints elsewhere in these comments.

I had forgotten about RiverTrail. Very cool project, but is it even still in active development? Commits seemed to have trailed off.

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sitkack 4569 days ago
heh, trailed off.

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Because WebGL will be based off of WebCL, WebGL is a subset targeted at graphics.

And change is accelerating, everything in the future happens faster. So there will be more people to implement WebCL than there was to implement WebGL. More and more people are using advanced web apps so the pressure is higher to make things faster.

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