... and add a parallel raytracing demo!
This commit adds enough support to `wasm-bindgen` to produce a workable
wasm binary *today* with the experimental WebAssembly threads support
implemented in Firefox Nightly. I've tried to comment what's going on in
the commits and such, but at a high level the changes made here are:
* A new transformation, living in a new `wasm-bindgen-threads-xform`
crate, prepares a wasm module for parallel execution. This performs a
number of mundane tasks which I hope to detail in a blog post later on.
* The `--no-modules` output is enhanced with more support for when
shared memory is enabled, allowing passing in the module/memory to
initialize the wasm instance on multiple threads (sharing both module
and memory).
* The `wasm-bindgen` crate now offers the ability, in `--no-modules`
mode, to get a handle on the `WebAssembly.Module` instance.
* The example itself requires Xargo to recompile the standard library
with atomics and an experimental feature enabled. Afterwards it
experimentally also enables threading support in wasm-bindgen.
I've also added hopefully enough CI support to compile this example in a
builder so we can upload it and poke around live online. I hope to
detail more about the technical details here in a blog post soon as
well!
This commit migrates away from using Serde for the custom section in
wasm executables. This is a refactoring of a purely-internal data
structure to `wasm-bindgen` and should have no visible functional change
on users.
The motivation for this commit is two fold:
* First, the compile times using `serde_json` and `serde_derive` for the
syntax extension isn't the most fun.
* Second, eventually we're going to want to stablize the layout of the
custom section, and it's highly unlikely to be json!
Primarily, though, the intention of this commit is to improve the
cold-cache compile time of `wasm-bindgen` by ensuring that for new users
this project builds as quickly as possible. By removing some heavyweight
dependencies from the procedural macro, `serde`, `serde_derive`, and
`serde_json`, we're able to get a pretty nice build time improvement for
the `wasm-bindgen` crate itself:
| | single-core build | parallel build |
|-------------|-------------------|----------------|
| master | 36.5s | 17.3s |
| this commit | 20.5s | 11.8s |
These are't really end-all-be-all wins but they're much better
especially on the spectrum of weaker CPUs (in theory modeled by the
single-core case showing we have 42% less CPU work in theory).
The `wasm-bindgen` crate is effectively the only user of this crate now
that the `wasm-gc` tool has been deprecated. It's also much easier to
keep it in this repository as it's easier to sync changes to
`parity-wasm`. I'd also like to start refactoring out utilities for
managing a `parity_wasm::Module` to share between this crate and the
other CLI support code.
This is a pretty heavyweight dependency which accounts for a surprising amount
of runtime for larger modules in `wasm-bindgen`. We don't need 90% of the crate
and so this commit bundles a small interpreter for instructions we know are only
going to appear in describe-related functions.
First added in #161 this never ended up panning out, so let's remove the
experimental suport which isn't actually used by anything today and hold off on
any other changes until an RFC happens.
Currently the `wasm-gc-api` crate doesn't expose `parity_wasm::Module` as a
public dependency which means that whenever we want to run a GC (which is twice
per `wasm-bindgen` invocation) we have to serialize and reparse the module a
lot! The `wasm-bindgen` has to serialize, `wasm-gc` then parses, `wasm-gc` then
serializes, and `wasm-bindgen` then parses.
This commit sidesteps all of these operations by ensuring that we always use the
same `parity_wasm::Module` instance, even when multiple versions of the
`parity_wasm` crate are in use. We'll get a speed boost when they happen to
align (which they always should for `wasm-bindgen`), but it'll work even if they
aren't aligned (by going through serialization).
Concretely on my machine this takes a `wasm-bindgen` invocation from 0.5s to
0.2s, a nice win!
* Bump to 0.2.12
* Update all version numbers and deps
* Update all listed authors to `["The wasm-bindgen Developers"]`
* Update `repository` links to specific paths for each crate
* Update `homepage` links to the online book
* Update all links away from `alexcrichton/wasm-bindgen`
* Add `#[doc]` directives for HTML URLs
* Update more version requirements
* Fill out CHANGELOG
The changes on master Rust insert debug sections now (yay!) but this means that
wasm binaries by default pick up debug sections from the standard library, so
let's remove them by default in wasm-bindgen unless `--debug` is passed
This commit adds an example of executing the `wasm2asm` tool to generate asm.js
output instead of WebAssembly. This is often useful when supporting older
browsers, such as IE 11, that doesn't have native support for WebAssembly.
This commit adds a `#[wasm_bindgen(version = "...")]` attribute support. This
information is eventually written into a `__wasm_pack_unstable` section.
Currently this is a strawman for the proposal in ashleygwilliams/wasm-pack#101
Currently errors are reported via Rust panics but there's lots more errors being
added over time so this commit starts the movement towards the `failure` crate
to more idiomatically report errors as well as provide better error messages
over time.
