John McCutchan

@sunfishcode

Thanks @sunfishcode- this seems like a performant portable compromise. It's great that Mozilla is ensuring video / image processing can be accelerated in SIMD.js- I completely side stepped this problem...

@littledan I did not say that the philosophy behind SIMD in Dart and SIMD.js was motivated by a compiler being incapable of doing optimizations- but that JIT compilers have to...

@littledan You're missing the point.

We should probably include these in Phase 1.

@sunfishcode Can you chime in here?

Concrete use cases would definitely solidify the case for keeping them. But it's hard for us to exhaustively find all use cases so I would lean towards including them. As...

Agreed. This seems like a bug in the spec text @littledan

Unlikely related to https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/139630 as those apps don't crash (they continue to run just fine but don't paint anything because of a SurfaceView related issue).

Please file a _new_ Flutter issue if you find a reliable way to reproduce this crash.