Stream: wasi-threads

Topic: blog post

view this post on Zulip Andrew Brown (Feb 22 2023 at 17:09):

The blog post I had been working on is now up: https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/wasi-threads. It talks about all of the work we did to specify the proposal, build support into the wasi-sdk toolchain, and implement things in Wasmtime and WAMR. Thanks to all who contributed along the way!

Announcing wasi-threads
Until now, one piece missing from WebAssembly standalone engines was the ability to spawn threads.Browsers have had this ability for some time via Web Workers, but standalone engines had no standardway to do this. This post describes the...

view this post on Zulip Andrew Brown (Feb 22 2023 at 17:10):

(Hope I included everyone in the "thank you" paragraph but if I didn't please let me know and I will add you!)

view this post on Zulip Kate Goldenring (Feb 24 2023 at 21:50):

Andrew Brown said:

The blog post I had been working on is now up: https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/wasi-threads. It talks about all of the work we did to specify the proposal, build support into the wasi-sdk toolchain, and implement things in Wasmtime and WAMR. Thanks to all who contributed along the way!

@Andrew Brown loved the post! Took me less than 10 minutes to walk through all the examples. Amazing write up.

view this post on Zulip Andrew Brown (Feb 24 2023 at 22:01):

Cool, glad it was helpful!

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