playcanvas / playcanvas/engine

Explore AssemblyScript integration

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Since Sep 2, 2020.

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Description

We have a PR https://github.com/playcanvas/engine/pull/2213 which explores one way of using AssemblyScript (WASM) modules by Playcanvas. I would like to explore a way to build custom functions using AssemblyScript, which can be called by the main engine in JS to optimize hot functions / but perhaps do more in the future.

Main objectives:

Later:

  • AssemblyScript has support for SIMD and atomics (experimental features), it'd be great to see if these can be used. I'm not sure what the impact is of the code using these still being able to compile to TS.

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