WebAssembly / WebAssembly/threads
Plan for enabling Wasm threads
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- WebAssembly
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Description
From https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/1261:
In https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/issues/1435 I detailed an approach the HTML community is planning on taking for reenabling ECMAScript's SharedArrayBuffer. This also affects Wasm if Wasm ever gets its own thread primitive (rather than building on top of workers and
postMessage()) or some other high-resolution timer mechanism. Your input is most welcome.
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 by reading WebAssembly/design#1261 and tc39/ecma262#1435 to understand the proposed SharedArrayBuffer and high-resolution timer changes. Compare how those plans affect Wasm's possible thread primitive, then document a resolved approach for enabling Wasm threads and the remaining questions.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- wasm
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100