WebAssembly / WebAssembly/binaryen
Support branch hinting
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Description
The branch hinting proposal is close to reaching phase 4. Its text format depends on the annotations proposal, and since the new wat parser supports annotations in general, it will now be easier to implement support for branch hinting. This should probably be combined with adding support for branch hinting in the LLVM WebAssembly backend to be most useful.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the branch hinting proposal and the new wat parser, then inspect the LLVM WebAssembly backend mentioned in the issue. Determine the required text-format annotations and backend support; done means branch hinting is supported in both areas.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp, wasm
- Domain
- compilers
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100