Inside the Community Group and going parallel with SIMD @ Google

This month's space is sponsored by Google & Fastly. We have two talks from Googlers Ben Smith and Thomas Lively.

The Meetup will be recorded and videos will be linked here after the event.

Agenda:

6:00pm - Doors open
6:30-7:15pm - Greetings from A Coruña: notes from the WebAssembly CG meeting, Ben Smith
7:30-8:15pm - Harnessing your Hardware with SIMD, Thomas Lively

About the talks:

Greetings from A Coruña: notes from the WebAssembly CG meeting

In June, the WebAssembly groups will have the first in-person meeting of the year at the Igalia offices in A Coruña, Spain. The meeting will be two full days of discussion. In this talk, Ben hopes to take the highly-technical, jargon-filled contents of those two days, and condense them down to an easy-to-understand and enjoyable 30 minutes. Will he succeed? Come to the talk and find out!

Harnessing your Hardware with SIMD

This talk will explore SIMD, one of the most eagerly anticipated new WebAssembly features. SIMD stands for "single instruction, multiple data" and lets your hardware perform operations on multiple values at once. We will learn how SIMD works in WebAssembly and how you can use it to speed up your applications. Along the way we will get a peek at how new WebAssembly features are developed and how you can get involved in shaping the future of the WebAssembly specification.

About the speakers:

Ben is a Software Engineer at Google, and the chair of the WebAssembly Working Group and Community Group. He primarily contributes to V8 and Blink, Chrome's JavaScript and rendering engines. He also maintains wabt, a suite of tools for working with WebAssembly files.

Thomas is a software engineer on the WebAssembly Tools team at Google. He primarily works on the WebAssembly LLVM backend and the Binaryen optimizer, implementing their support for the latest and greatest WebAssembly features including SIMD and bulk memory operations. He is particularly interested in making it easy to build projects targeting wasm engines with different feature sets.