Wine on Javascript

[Jesse Litton]

This is why I try to avoid the internet on April 1st.

On 04/01/2015 04:05 AM, Zhenbo Li wrote:
> Hi All,
> I'm came up with this idea since last year, and I'm glad to share this
> idea to you today.
>
> We tried to compile wine with clang[1], and most of the blocks have
> been fixed[2]. I tried it on my computer, and wine was built
> successfully, but `make test` failed.' I think wine+clang would work
> fine soon.
> Besides, the JavaScript engines are improving, for example, Google
> V8[3], and we can expect a better performance[4].
>
> Now, let's connect them: Why not run wine's IR with a JavaScript engine?[5]
> At least, we have such benefits:
> 1. We can offer a online demo for wine
> 2. Wine can work on portable devices
> 3. Wine user can use the same prefix on different devices
> 4. We can have a better backend[6]
>
> This is my humble idea. I'm looking forward to your reply.
>
> [1]: http://wiki.winehq.org/Clang
> [2]: https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=10638
> [3]: https://code.google.com/p/v8/
> [4]: http://arewefastyet.com/
> [5]: http://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/
> [6]: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/graphics-acceleration-for-html5-and-java-script-engine-jit-optimization-for-mobile-devices
>