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wasm-render
Software rasteriser written in WASM/C & TypeScript to test WebAssembly and compare performance
Rasteriser draws a single texture-mapped polygon onto each face of a simple 3D mesh. The same code has been written in pure Javascript (well... TypeScript) and then again in WebAssembly / C.
Try the demo running here (link fixed again! - SSL cert problem, sorry!)
Read the article about all of this here
You can switch between C and JS at run time to visually compare performance, and a realtime latency graph is included to measure each frame time in milliseconds.
Click the graph to switch between JS and WebAssembly/C.
Using the rather awesome wasm-init tool which relieved me of many, many headaches.
How to build and run
Install Emscripten
git clone https://github.com/juj/emsdk.git
cd emsdk
./emsdk install sdk-incoming-64bit binaryen-master-64bit
./emsdk activate sdk-incoming-64bit binaryen-master-64bit
warning: this takes about an hour or more!
Clone and install
git clone https://github.com/alanmacleod/wasm-render.git
npm install
npm run buildall
node server
If all went well, it should be running: http://localhost:3000/