By: Jan Wassenberg (jan.wassenberg.delete@this.gmail.com), June 1, 2022 10:17 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Peter Lewis (peter.delete@this.notyahoo.com) on June 1, 2022 4:02 pm wrote:
> On GitHub, I saw something called WebAssembly Flexible-Vectors, which uses variable length
> vectors like RVV and SVE/SVE2. Jan, do you have any guess how long it will take for this
> to find its way into a web browser? Will it be a couple of years or more than five years?
I do not have a guess, but anyone inclined to do so might extrapolate from the past: compare the date of the earliest commit of WebAssembly/simd with the date of ratification (IIRC 0.5-1 year ago), and then compare the size of the previous spec with the new proposal.
> On GitHub, I saw something called WebAssembly Flexible-Vectors, which uses variable length
> vectors like RVV and SVE/SVE2. Jan, do you have any guess how long it will take for this
> to find its way into a web browser? Will it be a couple of years or more than five years?
I do not have a guess, but anyone inclined to do so might extrapolate from the past: compare the date of the earliest commit of WebAssembly/simd with the date of ratification (IIRC 0.5-1 year ago), and then compare the size of the previous spec with the new proposal.
