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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions EssentialPostV1Features.md
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Expand Up @@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ Minimum Viable Product that is [v.1](V1.md).

## Zero-cost Exception Handling
* Developer access to stack unwinding and inspection.
* This will be used to implement `setjmp`/`longjmp` (instead of the usual
opposite approach).

## Signature-restricted Proper Tail Calls
* This can also be used to support `goto` and irreducible control flow.
* TODO
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# Feature to add after v.1

These are features that make sense in the context of the
[high-level goals](HighLevelGoals.md) of WebAssembly but are not considered part of the
[Minimum Viable Product](V1.md) or the [essential post-v.1 feature set](EssentialPostV1Features.md)
which are expected to be standardized immediately after v.1. These will be
prioritized based on developer feedback.
These are features that make sense in the context of the
[high-level goals](HighLevelGoals.md) of WebAssembly but are not considered part
of the [Minimum Viable Product](V1.md) or the
[essential post-v.1 feature set](EssentialPostV1Features.md) which are expected
to be standardized immediately after v.1. These will be prioritized based on
developer feedback.

## Dynamic loading
* Both load-time and run-time.
* TODO

## Finer-grained control over memory
* mmap of File, madvise(MADV_DONTNEED), ...
* `mmap` of File, `madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)`, ...
* TODO

## GC/DOM Integration
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* TODO

## Operations which may not be available or may not perform well on all platforms
* FMA, reciprocal sqrt approximate, fp16
* TODO
* Fused multiply-add.
* Reciprocal square root approximate.
* 16-bit flaoting point.

## Platform-independent Just-in-Time compilatione
## Platform-independent Just-in-Time compilation
* TODO
* Potentially through dynamic loading.