Maybe someone is interested for their web chess related projects:
"WebAssembly is a new type of code that can be run in modern web browsers — it is a low-level assembly-like language with a compact binary format that runs with near-native performance and provides languages such as C/C++ with a compilation target so that they can run on the web. It is also designed to run alongside JavaScript, allowing both to work together."
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly
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cdani
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Re: WebAssembly
I made a WebAssembly build for Stockfish: https://github.com/niklasf/stockfish.js
Unfortunately WebAssembly has no support for threading right now. That's a downside in itself, but is especially annoying if you want to allow interaction, e.g. stopping search. You have to actively poll for that (and call JavaScript to execute the event loop).
Still nps gets up to 70% of native performance, which is a huge improvement. (Before performance was at around 10% using ASMJS in Firefox).
Unfortunately WebAssembly has no support for threading right now. That's a downside in itself, but is especially annoying if you want to allow interaction, e.g. stopping search. You have to actively poll for that (and call JavaScript to execute the event loop).
Still nps gets up to 70% of native performance, which is a huge improvement. (Before performance was at around 10% using ASMJS in Firefox).