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SIMD numeric type for EcmaScript
15 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 0 stories, 15 comments · first 2013-10-15 · latest 2026-09-24
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…it very annoying that SIMD was taken out of development for JS. Big TC39 wants wants JS to fail. https://github.com/tc39/ecmascript_simd
comment by suplexer · 2026-09-24 · in The JavaScript Midlife Crisis -
…which was once an ECMAScript proposal, but has been abandondend in favour of WASM SIMD: https://github.com/tc39/ecmascript_simd Finally there's the historical angle (e.g. "why does WASM exist in the first place"): TL;DR: - with the end of…
comment by flohofwoe · 2025-01-16 · in Is WebAssembly Memory64 worth using? -
Ah, it looks like you're correct. Apologies, I actually meant SIMD[0]. [0] https://github.com/tc39/ecmascript_simd
comment by TheAceOfHearts · 2017-06-28 · in TC39, ECMAScript, and the Future of JavaScript -
…to violate the spec. However it turns out the SIMD proposal has been dead since at least April: https://github.com/tc39/ecmascript_simd/commit/c6ca655dcbfc0... So this isn't really "Google kills SIMD" but "Google kills implementation of…
comment by pluma · 2017-06-04 · in Google removes SIMD.js support from Chromium -
…of operations. I'm interested in any other ideas you have as well. SIMD.js is being developed at https://github.com/tc39/ecmascript_simd and you're welcome to file issues to send us your ideas. Thanks!
comment by sunfish · 2016-01-11 · in Intent to implement WASM in v8 -
…and participated in investigations and root cause analysis to improve page load/response times [1]: https://github.com/johnmccutchan/ecmascript_simd [2]: https://github.com/tc39/ecma262
comment by mkishi · 2015-05-22 · in Intel’s contributions in Microsoft Edge: SIMD and other performance enhancements -
…on ES6 and 7 apart from SIMD (John McCutchan shout-out, John did the Dart work and then worked on https://github.com/johnmccutchan/ecmascript_simd; I had some small helpful role to do with the project involving Mozilla and Intel, too) and…
comment by BrendanEich · 2015-03-25 · in “We have decided not to integrate the Dart VM into Chrome” -
…Typing is so cool: http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:typed_objects SIMD is amazing: https://github.com/johnmccutchan/ecmascript_simd So, thank you Dart for showing us the way! My only worry is that the innovators behind Dart…
comment by bhouston · 2015-03-25 · in “We have decided not to integrate the Dart VM into Chrome” -
…all the use cases in them (work has been ongoing for some time). But from memory I can recall that https://github.com/johnmccutchan/ecmascript_simd/issues/59 is interesting here, it mentions, among other things, the major SIMD-using code…
comment by azakai · 2014-10-30 · in Introducing SIMD.js -
…for the link! I tried going through the issues (randomly clicking) but I am not seeing use cases. https://github.com/johnmccutchan/ecmascript_simd/issues/89 https://github.com/johnmccutchan/ecmascript_simd/issues/85…
comment by general_failure · 2014-10-30 · in Introducing SIMD.js -
…That's just one tiny demo. See the github repo discussions for lots of debate on use cases, https://github.com/johnmccutchan/ecmascript_simd/issues This has been discussed very intensively, with input from people from Intel, Mozilla, and…
comment by azakai · 2014-10-30 · in Introducing SIMD.js -
…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKh7UOELpPo He's also the guy wrote the proposal for ECMAScript: https://github.com/johnmccutchan/ecmascript_simd Also, using SIMD is way easier than using shaders. You just write something like this: double…
comment by ahoge · 2014-06-11 · in Intel Bringing SIMD to JavaScript -
…a native version (See ecmascript_simd [1] which I believe was written with this idea in mind) [1] https://github.com/johnmccutchan/ecmascript_simd
comment by v13inc · 2013-10-15 · in “The 'use asm' pragma is not necessary to opt into optimizations in V8”