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MindSpore WebAssembly Backend

by nopainkiller on 5/31/20, 1:27 PM with 7 comments

• by _bxg1 on 6/2/20, 4:28 AM

  It's unfortunate that the terms "front-end" and "back-end" are so overloaded. In this case I thought they meant a compiler backend, but that doesn't make much sense in context because the "backend" would be that which targets WASM itself, which is not new. And then some might think they meant it in the web sense; i.e. something running on a server. But it sounds like there is actually yet another sense of the term, in the context of ML.

• by lucasterra on 6/2/20, 7:19 AM

  > WASM has now became a widely used and de-facto runtime standard in web development, especially for mobile applications.

  This statement is a bit of a stretch. I don’t see where WASM is being used in mobile development, nor see it in wide use across the industry.

• by gujun720 on 5/31/20, 2:27 PM

  It will be helpful, if the author could compare the performance of WASM back end.

  Will it be better than Model runtime with HTTP support?