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3 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score +0.29.
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Wasm SIMD approach is neat and a good idea for wasi-libc
From 2 comments
Wasm intrinsics look neat as a higher-level fixed size SIMD abstraction. I wonder how good the compilers can do if using them for AOT targets with libraries like simd-everywhere.…
fuhsnn on HNThis looks like a nice approach to making wasi-libc faster. Could you submit these changes upstream?
phickey on HN
Objections
Wasm bitmask is slower than no SIMD on Aarch64
From 1 comment
I'd like to be a little more sure that I'm not totally messing things up before doing that, but yes, eventually, that would be a nice outcome. I've also only really tested…
ncruces on HN
Requests
Submit changes upstream to wasi-libc
From 2 comments
This looks like a nice approach to making wasi-libc faster. Could you submit these changes upstream?
phickey on HNThe maintainers of wasi-libc are some of the best people to review this, and I don’t think it would be wasting their time to ask them to look at a PR.
phickey on HN
Add strstr() implementation
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Wasm intrinsics look neat as a higher-level fixed size SIMD abstraction. I wonder how good the compilers can do if using them for AOT targets with libraries like simd-everywhere.…
fuhsnn on HN
Questions
What is SWAR?
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What is SWAR?
forrestthewoods on HN
How well do compilers optimise these intrinsics for AOT targets?
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Wasm intrinsics look neat as a higher-level fixed size SIMD abstraction. I wonder how good the compilers can do if using them for AOT targets with libraries like simd-everywhere.…
fuhsnn on HN
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simd-everywhere
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Wasm intrinsics look neat as a higher-level fixed size SIMD abstraction. I wonder how good the compilers can do if using them for AOT targets with libraries like simd-everywhere.…
fuhsnn on HN