From InfoWorld: Looking to speed up JavaScript applications, Intel is leading efforts to enable SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) capabilities in the official specification underlying JavaScript, although it could be a while before their inclusion.
Intel's efforts to increase performance of browser-based applications require accessing SIMD instructions on the host processor and leveraging data parallelism in applications. Along with collaborators Google and Mozilla, Intel plans to present its SIMD.js proposal in July to the ECMA International TC39 committee, which oversees revisions to the ECMAscript standard underlying JavaScript, said Intel Senior Principal Engineer Mohammad Haghighat.
The group's goal is to get SIMD.js capabilities in ECMAscript 7, which may not arrive for some time. ECMAscript 6, for its part, has been slated for completion later this year.
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