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Building the upstream libdispatch code is currently blocked by #658.
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Basically yes. I think the availability of SharedArrayBuffer
in all browsers would allow us to emulate threads with web workers, but I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't become widely available earlier than WebAssembly threads. Then what's the point of doing emulation for a single browser (Chrome in this case)?
I'm following the threads proposal and surely it's best to start thinking about it now. But another reasoning here is that we have very limited resources on the toolchain side of things. We need to carefully pick high priority things and complete those quickly, primarily to drive the SwiftWasm ecosystem adoption. I personally wouldn't have the capacity to look into both the web worker emulation and the true threads support. If you're willing to drive implementation efforts for either of those, that would very greatly appreciated 🙏
By the way, with regards to capitalization it's "Wasm" or "wasm", but never "WASM", because it is not an acronym. 🙂 We also follow the capitalization convention established by RustWasm.
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Is there a way to build libdispatch on top of the Wasm Thread or web worker?
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The big problem here is that WebAssembly threads are available only in a few browsers such as Chrome, and only under a flag. The threads proposal is still in flux, so no matter what we do now, would probably need to change later.
And with web workers, you still need some syncronization primitives, which requires shared memory between WebAssembly modules. The only way to do that currently is with SharedArrayBuffer
which is slow as it requires bridging to JavaScript, and is also disabled in most browsers:
Note that SharedArrayBuffer was disabled by default in all major browsers on 5 January, 2018 in response to Spectre. Chrome re-enabled it in v67 on platforms where its site-isolation feature is enabled to protect against Spectre-style vulnerabilities.
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Thanks for the answer. So the only hope is to wait for WASM Thread
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- Add symbol renaming support to wasm-ld like `--alias` or `--defsym`
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- Branch cut for 5.9 release HOT 3
- SwiftWASM REPL - allow import of WebAssembly.Memory
- Remove pthread hack HOT 1
- Roadmap: Threading Support
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- Support WASILibc in SwiftPM's test runner HOT 2
- Overlay Swift resource directories upon wasi-sysroot
- SwiftDriver: Propagate `-use-static-resource-dir` for module merging job HOT 1
- SwiftWasm 5.9 release HOT 11
- Set up 5.10 release snapshot
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