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| author | JF Bastien <github@jfbastien.com> | 2017-05-22 22:33:00 -0700 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2017-05-22 22:33:00 -0700 |
| commit | e435236b8ed2bda5dbddc97c9af5b1dc790e1471 (patch) | |
| tree | 7ad4009d71f1353b2c1c19d12b3f31be81a10f50 | |
| parent | 6cdc38bc079dad320c16c96d570d0fa1b13c97b7 (diff) | |
Move threads
Now tracked here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/1073
As discussed here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/1066
| -rw-r--r-- | FutureFeatures.md | 25 |
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diff --git a/FutureFeatures.md b/FutureFeatures.md index 63ce2ca..3053e6f 100644 --- a/FutureFeatures.md +++ b/FutureFeatures.md @@ -18,31 +18,6 @@ the [MVP](MVP.md). This is covered in the [tooling](Tooling.md) section. -### Threads -#### :star: :star: - -Provide low-level buildings blocks for pthreads-style shared memory: shared -memory between threads, atomics and futexes (or [synchronic][]). - -New atomic memory operators, including loads/stores annotated with their atomic -ordering property, will follow the [C++11 memory model][], similarly to the -[PNaCl atomic support][] and the [SharedArrayBuffer][] proposal. Regular loads -and stores will be bound by a happens-before relationship to atomic operators -in the same thread of execution, which themselves synchronize-with atomics in -other threads. Following these rules, regular load/store operators can still be -elided, duplicated, and split up. This guarantees that data-race free code -executes as if it were sequentially consistent. Even when there are data races, -WebAssembly will ensure that the [nondeterminism](Nondeterminism.md) remains -limited and local. - -Modules can have thread-local variables that are disjoint from linear memory -and can thus be represented efficiently by the engine. - - [synchronic]: http://wg21.link/n4195 - [C++11 memory model]: http://www.hboehm.info/c++mm/ - [PNaCl atomic support]: https://developer.chrome.com/native-client/reference/pnacl-c-cpp-language-support#memory-model-and-atomics - [SharedArrayBuffer]: https://github.com/tc39/ecmascript_sharedmem - ### Fixed-width SIMD #### :star: |