17 Jul
2017
17 Jul
'17
10:57 a.m.
On 07/17/2017 02:10 AM, Gavin Lambert via Boost wrote:
On 17/07/2017 15:59, Phil Bouchard wrote:
Furthermore, in theory, is should be possible to offer a service which compiles the executables for combinations of major architecture / OS only once, cache these executables on the webserver and executing them in a specialized container on the client's desktop. Thus, in theory, we would be able to execute real-time engines from within our own browser!
That used to be a thing (https://developer.chrome.com/native-client) but was deprecated in favour of WebAssembly (http://webassembly.org/).
Interesting; then all we would need is for G++ to generate WebAssembly code.