Posts from 2015

The state of SIMD.js performance in Firefox

Mar 10 2015

SIMD.js is a new API for performing SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) computations in JavaScript which is being developed by Google, Intel, Mozilla, and others. For example, it defines a new Float32x4 type which represents 4 float32 values packed up … Continue reading

The Path to Parallel JavaScript

Feb 26 2015

Dave Herman

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Between the coming release of ES6 and unrelenting competition for JIT performance, these are exciting times for JavaScript. But an area where JS still lags is parallelism—exploiting hardware acceleration by running multiple computations simultaneously. I’d like to present some experiments … Continue reading