WebAssembly: now web is a new compiler target architecture
summary
Claim: the web becomes a new compiler target so C/C++ can compile to a portable binary run inside browsers. Concrete tools shown: Emscripten (emcc) and LLVM/Binaryen pipeline, the WebAssembly text format and WebAssembly Explorer. Working examples include Unity export to Wasm, an X68k emulator port, a Vim-in-browser markdown editor, image edge detection and video motion-vector analysis. Measured perf is ~50% slower than native but much faster than equivalent JS; debugging uses Firefox DevTools wasm debugger. Memory is a linear ArrayBuffer and modules are sandboxed.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 4:37WebAssembly on Firefox
- 5:13WebAssembly binary format
- 7:12Formal execution performance
- 7:52Encryption
- 10:52Examples
- 11:07Game
- 12:17Motion Vector
- 13:43Limit Processing
- 14:13Web
- 18:52Explanation
- 24:12Debugger
- 27:13WebAssembly explora
- 27:59Register
- 28:52Memory
- 29:50Binary format
