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eggy on March 15, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Experimental support for WebAssembly in V8

Is the ISPC language what they used to help Edge via the Chakra engine per this [1], and the other browser engines would have to do the same, or am I misunderstanding your reference? [1] https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/05/21/intel-and-mic...

CyberDildonics on March 16, 2016 [–]

I don't know, but I doubt it. Maybe there is knowledge transfer there, but ISPC is a separate language that uses a 'varying' keyword to control whether a variable represents a SIMD 'gang' or not.

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