GIFs, or JIFs, are one of those strange oddities of the internet. The format is slow, inefficient, and from the 80s (!)- did we even have color scr...
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Great read Sam. I do find that gifuct is faster on Safari Mobile (iOS 11.4.1, iPhone 7 plus) but I expect this is due to lack of WASM support…?
So WASM actually is supported there. Safari is sometimes slower (my friend commented this too), but we're not really sure why—my hunch is that Safari's JS implementation is very good for this sort of stuff, making gifuct quite fast.
Chrome and Firefox have the more expected pattern.
Wow, nice!
I was working on a gifuct-based meme assembler as a side project but maybe I ought to switch to WASM.
Thanks, Weston! WASM isn't supported everywhere, but it's pretty amazing how quickly it came to all four modern evergreen browsers.
Hi Sam!
Thank you for such a good explanation of wasm: now I feel that I can start doing something with it, really intriguing.
One note:
seems that you have two
Threesteps.Thanks!
Whoops, fixed! 🤣
so fast, haha. Thanks!
Somehow, I observe an 8x speed increase on the latest Chrome on Android
That's great! We see a huge spread—some of it, I suspect, is that we are hitting initial startup work in either case. Running the code 100 times on user's browsers is not considered friendly, since I'd size their devices up for minutes, but that would be the way to really determine what the time is.
Wow, so cool!
Great article! I'm very excited about the future of WASM :D
Hello, at step 3 I was faced with the next error:
EM_ASM should not receive i64s as inputs, they are not valid in JS