Box2D with SIMD in JavaScript
Ningxin Hu and Peter Jensen
Here you'll find the presentation and other relevant material we presented at the October, 2014 HTML5 Developer Conference.
In order to get the best experience for the SIMD enabled demos you must use one of the Firefox Nightly builds, or a special experimental Intel build of Chromium with SIMD.
The links to download these are below. Once installed, launch it and reopen this web page.
Download
Firefox Nightly
and/or
Download Experimental Chromium/SIMD
NOTE: Add '--js-flags=--simd-object' to the command line invocation
Presentation (.pdf file)
Demos
- Jumping birds using asm.js
Shows the effect of SIMD opts - Jumping birds without asm.js (must use Chromium with SIMD)
- Simple demo with Box2DWeb Show a simple world running with Box2DWeb
- Simple demo with box2d.js (asm.js)
Shows a simple world running with box2d.js - Ballpit with Box2DWeb
Shows a more complex world with ~800 balls with Box2DWeb - Ballpit with box2d.js (asm.js)
Shows a more complex world with ~800 balls with box2d.js