This is the unpublished documentation of wasm-bindgen, the published documentation is available on the main Rust and WebAssembly documentation site . Features documented here may not be available in released versions of wasm-bindgen.

Parallel Raytracing

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This is an unstable and experimental example of using threads with WebAssembly and Rust, culminating in a parallel raytracer demo. The browser requirements are:

  • Firefox Nightly
    • SharedArrayBuffer is enabled in about:config in Firefox
  • Google Chrome
    • No flags required on recent versions of Chrome
  • other browsers haven't implemented the proposed WebAssembly features yet.

Locally to build this demo you'll need xargo and the rust-src rustup component, and afterwards ./build.sh like other examples should build the example.

Again, to reiterate, this is all experimental and we're working through various issues as we're working on this. If you're curious to see how this works it's best to explore via the source code right now! More info will be available here once WebAssembly threads are closer to stabilization.