Defold Team,
You are currently using Emscripten version 1.35.0 (released 19 Oct 2015). It was released 3 years ago and that’s a critical amount of time for Emscripten and web technologies. I can’t say whether an update could somehow improve performance, but I know that it will reduce the size of the resulting JS file.
It would also be great if we could get project builds to WebAssembly as option.
Thx!
Yes, we will upgrade to a newer version in the coming months. Performance will not really change much, but we want to get access to web assembly to reduce startup time.
We’re going through our various dependencies now and you’ll soon see updates to both Facebook and the Android SDK. We did an update to AxTls recently as well. Emscripten and LuaJIT will be updated as well as an upgrade from Google Cloud Messaging to Firebase.
Follow up: our focus is not to constantly upgrade SDKs, libs and tools. It’s a time consuming process, and in general we follow the “if it ain’t broken then don’t fix it” philosophy. Upgrades can introduce new bugs and we value stability more than bleeding edge versions of all dependencies. It can seem provocative to some, but it has so far worked fairly well for us.