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SPLASH 2017
Sun 22 - Fri 27 October 2017 Vancouver, Canada
Tue 24 Oct 2017 11:20 - 12:00 at Windsor - VMIL Chair(s): Adam Welc

Although the performance of today’s JavaScript engines is sufficient for most web applications, faster and more predictable runtimes could be desired for performance-critical web code. Therefore, we present Speedy.js, a cross-compiler that translates JavaScript/TypeScript to WebAssembly, a new standard for native execution supported by all major browsers. Speedy.js only imposes minimal restrictions on the JavaScript code, namely that the performance-critical functions are wrapped in TypeScript and only engage a performance-optimal subset of the JavaScript language. With this approach, we manage to make compute-intense web code up to four times faster, while reducing runtime fluctuations to the half.

Tue 24 Oct

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10:30 - 12:00
VMILVMIL at Windsor
Chair(s): Adam Welc Huawei America Research Center
10:30
10m
Day opening
Welcome to VMIL
VMIL
Adam Welc Huawei America Research Center
10:40
40m
Talk
Cross-ISA debugging in meta-circular VMs
VMIL
Christos Kotselidis The University of Manchester, Andrew Nisbet The University of Manchester, Foivos S. Zakkak , Nikos Foutris
11:20
40m
Talk
Accelerate JavaScript Applications by Cross-Compiling to WebAssembly
VMIL
Micha Reiser Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil, Luc Bläser Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil