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We'll wait and see what tooling emerges. Saxon CE depends on GWT, and if GWT starts supporting this target, or if some equivalent emerges that supports it, then we can consider it. It's good to see that someone is starting to think about a target language for compiling browser applications that makes more sense in this role than Javascript. In principle if the Java VM written in LLVM is up to the job, then all we need to do is compile Saxon-CE to a JAR file and run it using asm.js code to execute the LLVM code which executes the Java bytecode. I fear that with three levels of interpretation, any performance advantages might disappear quite quickly, but who knows? Anyone want to try it? It's open source, after all. There are also a few practicalities like providing a cut down version of the OpenJDK class library that only contains the things Saxon CE actually needs - this is something GWT does extremely well. Michael Kay Saxonica On 9 Nov 2013, at 03:37, Lars Huttar <huttarl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Having read about the impressive performance gains for applications > running on asm.js > (http://ejohn.org/blog/asmjs-javascript-compile-target/), I'm wondering > whether there are any plans to port Saxon (CE) to that platform. > 4-10x faster is a big deal! > I don't know what tools are available from translating from Java or C# > to LLVM (from which Emscripten will translate to asm.js). But I thought > it was worth asking about. > > Lars
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