I’m glad we browser vendors had good sense to resist WebCL. What a debacle that would have been…
Well, it wasn’t that SQLite existed, it’s that it wasn’t spec’d. SPIR-V is spec’d, no?
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A spec is all PNaCl needed? It wasn’t a *formal* spec, but it had one. It could have been made extremely good. I doubt they would have sufficed. NaCl had a pretty simple spec too: the validator was *trivial*. I don’t think a spec is sufficient.
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Well, there are other issues at play too. Roughly: (1) is the existing tech spec’d? (2) does the existing tech meet the needs of the Web? NaCl/PNaCl meets (1) (though NaCl for x86 means importing x86 semantics so arguably not (1)) but not (2). SPIR-V meets both…
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