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"Browser Usage" in Readme probably wrong due to synchronous webassembly compilation #581

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ekpyron opened this issue Jan 7, 2022 · 1 comment
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bug 🐛 documentation 📖 medium effort Default level of effort medium impact Default level of impact must have eventually Something we consider essential but not enough to prevent us from releasing Solidity 1.0 without it. Needs Investigation

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ekpyron commented Jan 7, 2022

We specifically compile soljson.js with WASM_ASYNC_COMPILATION=0 - there was a reason for this, but I don't remember right now.
However, I think at least chromium-based browsers won't allow synchronous compilation from the main thread. This effectively means that loading the compiler has to be done from web workers right now (at least if it's supposed to work in all browsers) and the "Browser Usage" section in README.md is outdated.

So we need to check if we can switch to asynchronous compilation in solidity, investigate if and what kind of problems synchronous compilation entails and adjust the section in the readme accordingly.

@cameel cameel added this to solc-js Jun 10, 2022
@cameel cameel moved this to TODO in solc-js Jun 10, 2022
@cameel cameel moved this from Implement to Design/Decide in solc-js Jun 10, 2022
@cameel cameel moved this to Investigate in Solidity Focus Board Jul 4, 2022
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jhubbardsf commented Aug 8, 2022

Any updates on this? Still getting a compiler error when trying to load it in browser (chromium based).

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