Re: [AD] Allegro JavaScript port using Emscripten (First version complete)

[AJ <ajbaxter@xxxxxxxxxx>]

not all allegro use cases are about high performance graphics.

there are plenty of games where 8fps is plenty fast enough.


On 15/06/2014 6:26 AM, Daniel Leslie wrote:
> I just profiled this on my sluggish laptop, an older E350 machine, and 
> nailed around 8fps on average.
>
> I'm not too familiar with profiling HTML5, but the main culprits 
> appear to be:
>
> 56% in WCF__flushMessageQueue()
> This is an internal, and only around 1% was lost to call-outs. My 
> uneducated guess is that there's a /tonne/ of message handlers 
> registered that it's iterating through, or an equally enormous amount 
> of unhandled messages.
>
> 16% in _glDrawArrays()
> This is in skater_r.js.
>
> -Dan
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 12:32 PM, <beoran@xxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:beoran@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     This is a very nice beginning. I am in favour of already adding this
>     to the development branch of allegro, or to a separate branch, to keep
>     Max's good work safer from getting lost.
>
>     On 6/14/14, Max Savenkov <max.savenkov@xxxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:max.savenkov@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>     > Here's a result of my work for the last two months: a port of
>     Allegro
>     > to JavaScript via Emscripten. Patch for the latest Git version is
>     > attached. The port isn't fully complete, but it has most of
>     > functionality working, so I decided to present it to community for
>     > testing and to generate interest.
>     >
>     > Downloads & Further info:
>     >
>     > Pre-compiled version:
>     >
>     http://zxstudio.org/projects/allegro/emscripten/allegro-git-ems-bin.zip
>     >
>     > Modified sources:
>     >
>     http://zxstudio.org/projects/allegro/emscripten/allegro-git-ems-src.zip
>     >
>     > (Some) compiled dependencies:
>     >
>     http://zxstudio.org/projects/allegro/emscripten/allegro-git-ems-deps.zip
>     >
>     > Skater example:
>     http://zxstudio.org/projects/allegro/skater/skater_r.html
>     >
>     > Release post:
>     >
>     http://zxstudio.org/blog/2014/06/14/testing-release-allegro-javascript-port-emscripten/
>     >
>     > Porting your Allegro game to JavaScript with Emscripten:
>     >
>     http://zxstudio.org/blog/2014/06/14/porting-allegro-game-javascript-emscripten/
>     >