simd VS wapm-cli

I'd love to see OpenCL or WasmSIMD support for RVV 071.

Wasm SIMD supports only 128-bit registers, no? https://github.com/WebAssembly/simd/blob/a78b98a6899c9e91a13095e560767af6e99d98fd/proposals/simd/SIMD.md

According to the WebAssembly Roadmap, the 128-bit packed SIMD Extension proposal has been accepted and is already implemented in every major runtime except Safari, and the Relaxed SIMD proposal is planned, with Firefox already having an experimental implementation in nightly-channel builds.

Thanks! You're probably right about spatial filtering with a low sphere count. SIMD is supported, that looks to work in every recent browser except Safari. Looking forward to trying that out. A really quick search of wasm-bindgen docs don't reveal an interface to use that SIMD support though. I wonder if you can unsafely inline some raw wasm like you can with asm!

To actually compile this we can use a tool called WABT (WebAssembly Binary Toolkit). It's basically a mess that requires CMake and I couldn't get it to run on WSL and I wasn't going to install MinGW. Instead there's a nice tool called WAPM from Wasmer which works like npm for webassembly packages and since it's been compiled down to webassembly we can run it in any environment. In fact we don't even need to add configuration so long as wapm is installed. We can run wax wat2wasm -- wat/mat.wat -o wasm/mat.wasm. wax is like npx for npm. If you're wondering the command we give wax is defined by the wasmer/wabt package: https://wapm.io/wasmer/wabt. Also for some reason you can't prefix local paths with ./ so wax wat2wasm -- ./wat/mat.wat doesn't work which tool me a while to figure out. Anyway this provides a nice simple compile environment if you want to work on raw WAT files.

That's the main reason we should start using WebAssembly for distributing and using packages.

Shamless plug: Wasmer [1] and WAPM [2] could help a lot on this quest!

[1]: https://wasmer.io/

[2]: https://wapm.io/

There's WAPM

If it's buildable for the WebAssembly WASI target, consider also distributing it through WAPM.

I don't know if many people have heard of it, but there's actually a WebAssembly Package Manager. It's similar to crates.io, except you upload WebAssembly binaries written in any language instead of Rust source code!

You can see this paying off with wapm, which lets you download applications that would have normally required compilation for your environment and run them anywhere with a supported runtime, which is imo pretty neat.

One step closer to the day when I can put actix-web creations up on WAPM so "Just type wax my-cool-thing to try it out" can be one of the distribution options.

I've added limited support to run wapm.io directly from the Terminal. Examples of commands that work well are wapm cowsay {Text} and wapm uuid.