Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Qt Multimedia has a new friend...

 QtMultimedia just got a new platform to run on - Qt for WebAssembly!


I am happy to announce a new platform contribution for Qt Multimedia.

As of change https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtmultimedia/+/348150 and very much thanks to Qt contributor, Raffaele Pertile, we now have audio play and record on the WebAssembly platform for Qt 6.2.

This is possible  as Emscripten has built-in support for OpenAL, which this patch uses to push audio data around. So now, all your Qt webAssembly apps can have sound effects! \0/

 

 

  

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Monday, July 12, 2021

Qt WebAssembly: prompt on exit

 I sometimes get asked if there is a way to let a Qt app ask the user if they really want to close the app when the browser tab or window gets closed by the user.


The answer is yes and no. Yes, in that there is, and no in that it won't be your own Qt dialog/prompt.


We can use javascript in Qt webassembly apps, so the prompt will be opened by the browsers javascript. 


How?

There are two ways to run javascript. By using emscripten macro EM_ASM, or including emscripten/val.h and using straight c++.


EM_ASM:

The is the easiest way but uses a macro.


#include <emscripten.h>

Just add something like this, in your app constructor function:


    EM_ASM(
           window.onbeforeunload = function (e) {
                e = e || window.event;
                return 'Sure';
            };
    );


C++:

This is a bit more complicated, and involves a global static function.

#include <emscripten/bind.h>
#include <emscripten/val.h>
#include <emscripten.h>

static emscripten::val mybrowserBeforeUnload(emscripten::val e)
{
   return emscripten::val("Sure");
}


EMSCRIPTEN_BINDINGS(app) // must be unique name!
{
    function("myBrowserBeforeUnload", &mybrowserBeforeUnload);
}

and in the c'tor:

 emscripten::val::global("window").set("onbeforeunload", emscripten::val::module_property("myBrowserBeforeUnload"));


The key is to return a string. Any string will do.
and it looks something like this:




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Sunday, June 13, 2021

(redux) Qt WebAssembly performance enhancement

 In my last post Qt WebAssembly performance enhancement

there were some impressive performance stat speedups. Unfortunately, as my collegue Morten pointed out, both builds were in debug mode.  *sigh*

So I rebuilt them in release mode, and added a few selected benchmarks from the Qt tests/benchmark source directory:

  • tst_affectors
  • tst_emission
  • tst_QGraphicsScene
  • tst_QGraphicsView
  • tst_QGraphicsWidget
  • tst_qanimation
  • tst_QMatrix4x4
  • BlendBench
  • tst_QImageConversion
  • tst_DrawTexture
  • tst_QPainter

Although not as impressive overall, there is still quite a speed up in the image conversions and QPainter areas, for example:

non-simd:

PASS   : tst_QPainter::drawPixmap(BGR30 on RGB32, (1000x1000), circle)

RESULT : tst_QPainter::drawPixmap():"BGR30 on RGB32, (1000x1000), circle":

     2.3 msecs per iteration (total: 76, iterations: 32)

PASS   : tst_QPainter::drawPixmap(BGR30 on RGB32, (1000x1000), line)

RESULT : tst_QPainter::drawPixmap():"BGR30 on RGB32, (1000x1000), line":

     2.4 msecs per iteration (total: 77, iterations: 32)

PASS   : tst_QPainter::drawPixmap(BGR30 on RGB32, (1000x1000), solidrect)

RESULT : tst_QPainter::drawPixmap():"BGR30 on RGB32, (1000x1000), solidrect":

     2.4 msecs per iteration (total: 78, iterations: 32)

PASS   : tst_QPainter::drawPixmap(BGR30 on RGB32, (1000x1000), alpharect)

RESULT : tst_QPainter::drawPixmap():"BGR30 on RGB32, (1000x1000), alpharect":

     2.4 msecs per iteration (total: 78, iterations: 32)


simd:

RESULT : tst_QPainter::drawPixmap():"BGR30 on RGB32, (1000x1000), circle":

     0.95 msecs per iteration (total: 61, iterations: 64)

PASS   : tst_QPainter::drawPixmap(BGR30 on RGB32, (1000x1000), line)

RESULT : tst_QPainter::drawPixmap():"BGR30 on RGB32, (1000x1000), line":

     0.95 msecs per iteration (total: 61, iterations: 64)

PASS   : tst_QPainter::drawPixmap(BGR30 on RGB32, (1000x1000), solidrect)

RESULT : tst_QPainter::drawPixmap():"BGR30 on RGB32, (1000x1000), solidrect":

     0.92 msecs per iteration (total: 59, iterations: 64)

PASS   : tst_QPainter::drawPixmap(BGR30 on RGB32, (1000x1000), alpharect)

RESULT : tst_QPainter::drawPixmap():"BGR30 on RGB32, (1000x1000), alpharect":

     0.95 msecs per iteration (total: 61, iterations: 64


non-simd:

PASS   : tst_QPainter::drawPixmap(ARGB32_pm on RGB32, (1000x1000), circle)

RESULT : tst_QPainter::drawPixmap():"ARGB32_pm on RGB32, (1000x1000), circle":

     1.7 msecs per iteration (total: 56, iterations: 32)

PASS   : tst_QPainter::drawPixmap(ARGB32_pm on RGB32, (1000x1000), line)

RESULT : tst_QPainter::drawPixmap():"ARGB32_pm on RGB32, (1000x1000), line":

     1.7 msecs per iteration (total: 55, iterations: 32)

PASS   : tst_QPainter::drawPixmap(ARGB32_pm on RGB32, (1000x1000), solidrect)

RESULT : tst_QPainter::drawPixmap():"ARGB32_pm on RGB32, (1000x1000), solidrect":

     1.7 msecs per iteration (total: 55, iterations: 32)

PASS   : tst_QPainter::drawPixmap(ARGB32_pm on RGB32, (1000x1000), alpharect)

RESULT : tst_QPainter::drawPixmap():"ARGB32_pm on RGB32, (1000x1000), alpharect":

     3.6 msecs per iteration (total: 58, iterations: 16)


simd:

PASS   : tst_QPainter::drawPixmap(ARGB32_pm on RGB32, (1000x1000), circle)

RESULT : tst_QPainter::drawPixmap():"ARGB32_pm on RGB32, (1000x1000), circle":

     2.6 msecs per iteration (total: 85, iterations: 32)

PASS   : tst_QPainter::drawPixmap(ARGB32_pm on RGB32, (1000x1000), line)

RESULT : tst_QPainter::drawPixmap():"ARGB32_pm on RGB32, (1000x1000), line":

     4.0 msecs per iteration (total: 64, iterations: 16)

PASS   : tst_QPainter::drawPixmap(ARGB32_pm on RGB32, (1000x1000), solidrect)

RESULT : tst_QPainter::drawPixmap():"ARGB32_pm on RGB32, (1000x1000), solidrect":

     2.2 msecs per iteration (total: 71, iterations: 32)

PASS   : tst_QPainter::drawPixmap(ARGB32_pm on RGB32, (1000x1000), alpharect)

RESULT : tst_QPainter::drawPixmap():"ARGB32_pm on RGB32, (1000x1000), alpharect":

     4.5 msecs per iteration (total: 73, iterations: 16)


and image conversions:

non-simd:

PASS   : tst_QImageConversion::convertGenericInplace(argb32 -> argb32pm -> argb32)

RESULT : tst_QImageConversion::convertGenericInplace():"argb32 -> argb32pm -> argb32":

     6.1 msecs per iteration (total: 98, iterations: 16)

PASS   : tst_QImageConversion::convertGenericInplace(argb32 -> rgb32 -> argb32)

RESULT : tst_QImageConversion::convertGenericInplace():"argb32 -> rgb32 -> argb32":

     2.9 msecs per iteration (total: 94, iterations: 32)

PASS   : tst_QImageConversion::convertGenericInplace(argb32 -> rgba8888 -> argb32)

RESULT : tst_QImageConversion::convertGenericInplace():"argb32 -> rgba8888 -> argb32":

     4.6 msecs per iteration (total: 75, iterations: 16)

simd:

PASS   : tst_QImageConversion::convertGenericInplace(argb32 -> argb32pm -> argb32)

RESULT : tst_QImageConversion::convertGenericInplace():"argb32 -> argb32pm -> argb32":

     4.2 msecs per iteration (total: 68, iterations: 16)

PASS   : tst_QImageConversion::convertGenericInplace(argb32 -> rgb32 -> argb32)

RESULT : tst_QImageConversion::convertGenericInplace():"argb32 -> rgb32 -> argb32":

     0.49 msecs per iteration (total: 63, iterations: 128)

PASS   : tst_QImageConversion::convertGenericInplace(argb32 -> rgba8888 -> argb32)

RESULT : tst_QImageConversion::convertGenericInplace():"argb32 -> rgba8888 -> argb32":

     0.90 msecs per iteration (total: 58, iterations: 64)



But others were slower for the simd build. Probably due to emscripten not fully supporting simd instructions and emulating those where it doesn't support.


For full benchmark results get the zip file




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Thursday, June 10, 2021

Qt WebAssembly performance enhancement

SIMD is something related to performance stuff. It makes certain things go faster (simply put). Kind of like sticking laughing gas in your petrol car's fuel line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMD

Emscripten, WebAssembly now have better support for SIMD (to various degrees)

https://emscripten.org/docs/porting/simd.html


Chrome and firefox also support SIMD (to various degrees)

So for Qt 6.3, I have been working to get Qt building and running using those SIMD instructions available for javascript (and thereby WebAssembly) in the web browsers (sorry, Safari.. catch up soon?)


Just configure soon to be qt 6.3 with the -sse2 argument (change has not been reviewed or merged yet)

https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/343563

To see if it is actually worth adding SIMD support to Qt WebAssembly, I built a couple Qt Quick benchmarks, namely the declarative particles benchmarks - affectors and emission.

I had to put image and qml files into a .qrc resource file so that Qt WebAssembly could find them, as we have no real local file system access.


The results are much better than I expected. Clearly, there is a performance boost by using simd in wasm. 

 Someone else has had similar results with wasm SIMD

https://robaboukhalil.medium.com/webassembly-and-simd-7a7daa4f2ecd

 

Next I want to expand the number and type of benchmarks, but this gives us early baseline results.

Chrome browser
no SIMD:

********* Start testing of tst_affectors *********
Config: Using QtTest library 6.2.0, Qt 6.2.0 (wasm-little_endian-ilp32 static debug build; by Clang 13.0.0 (/b/s/w/ir/cache/git/chromium.googlesource.com-external-github.com-llvm-llvm--project 5852582532b3eb3ea8da51a1e272d8d017bd36c9)), unknown unknown
PASS   : tst_affectors::initTestCase()
Heap resize call from 16777216 to 20185088 took 0.09999999403953552 msecs. Success: true
Heap resize call from 20185088 to 24248320 took 0.10000000894069672 msecs. Success: true
Heap resize call from 24248320 to 29097984 took 0.10000000894069672 msecs. Success: true
Heap resize call from 29097984 to 34930688 took 0.5 msecs. Success: true
PASS   : tst_affectors::test_basic(16ms)
RESULT : tst_affectors::test_basic():"16ms":
     0.29 msecs per iteration (total: 75, iterations: 256)
Heap resize call from 34930688 to 41943040 took 0.10000000894069672 msecs. Success: true
PASS   : tst_affectors::test_basic(32ms)
RESULT : tst_affectors::test_basic():"32ms":
     0.41 msecs per iteration (total: 53, iterations: 128)
Heap resize call from 41943040 to 50331648 took 0.29999999701976776 msecs. Success: true
PASS   : tst_affectors::test_basic(100ms)
RESULT : tst_affectors::test_basic():"100ms":
     0.87 msecs per iteration (total: 56, iterations: 64)
Heap resize call from 50331648 to 60424192 took 0.3999999910593033 msecs. Success: true
PASS   : tst_affectors::test_basic(500ms)
RESULT : tst_affectors::test_basic():"500ms":
     3.3 msecs per iteration (total: 53, iterations: 16)
Heap resize call from 60424192 to 72548352 took 0.19999998807907104 msecs. Success: true
PASS   : tst_affectors::test_filtered(16ms)
RESULT : tst_affectors::test_filtered():"16ms":
     0.84 msecs per iteration (total: 54, iterations: 64)
PASS   : tst_affectors::test_filtered(32ms)
RESULT : tst_affectors::test_filtered():"32ms":
     0.96 msecs per iteration (total: 62, iterations: 64)
Heap resize call from 72548352 to 87097344 took 0.20000000298023224 msecs. Success: true
PASS   : tst_affectors::test_filtered(100ms)
RESULT : tst_affectors::test_filtered():"100ms":
     1.3 msecs per iteration (total: 89, iterations: 64)
PASS   : tst_affectors::test_filtered(500ms)
RESULT : tst_affectors::test_filtered():"500ms":
     3.7 msecs per iteration (total: 60, iterations: 16)
PASS   : tst_affectors::cleanupTestCase()
Totals: 10 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped, 0 blacklisted, 15037ms
********* Finished testing of tst_affectors *********

********* Start testing of tst_emission *********
Config: Using QtTest library 6.2.0, Qt 6.2.0 (wasm-little_endian-ilp32 static debug build; by Clang 13.0.0 (/b/s/w/ir/cache/git/chromium.googlesource.com-external-github.com-llvm-llvm--project 5852582532b3eb3ea8da51a1e272d8d017bd36c9)), unknown unknown
PASS   : tst_emission::initTestCase()
Heap resize call from 16777216 to 20185088 took 0 msecs. Success: true
Heap resize call from 20185088 to 24248320 took 0 msecs. Success: true
Heap resize call from 24248320 to 29097984 took 0 msecs. Success: true
PASS   : tst_emission::test_basic(16ms)
RESULT : tst_emission::test_basic():"16ms":
     1.6 msecs per iteration (total: 53, iterations: 32)
Heap resize call from 29097984 to 34930688 took 0.4000000059604645 msecs. Success: true
PASS   : tst_emission::test_basic(32ms)
RESULT : tst_emission::test_basic():"32ms":
     3.1 msecs per iteration (total: 51, iterations: 16)
PASS   : tst_emission::test_basic(100ms)
RESULT : tst_emission::test_basic():"100ms":
     4.5 msecs per iteration (total: 73, iterations: 16)
PASS   : tst_emission::test_basic(500ms)
RESULT : tst_emission::test_basic():"500ms":
     21 msecs per iteration (total: 87, iterations: 4)
Heap resize call from 34930688 to 41943040 took 0.09999999403953552 msecs. Success: true
PASS   : tst_emission::test_basic(1000ms)
RESULT : tst_emission::test_basic():"1000ms":
     22 msecs per iteration (total: 89, iterations: 4)
PASS   : tst_emission::test_basic(10000ms)
RESULT : tst_emission::test_basic():"10000ms":
     23 msecs per iteration (total: 92, iterations: 4)
PASS   : tst_emission::cleanupTestCase()
Totals: 8 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped, 0 blacklisted, 5398ms
********* Finished testing of tst_emission *********

======================================================================
======================================================================

chrome SIMD


********* Start testing of tst_affectors *********
Config: Using QtTest library 6.2.0, Qt 6.2.0 (wasm-little_endian-ilp32 static debug build; by Clang 13.0.0 (/b/s/w/ir/cache/git/chromium.googlesource.com-external-github.com-llvm-llvm--project 5852582532b3eb3ea8da51a1e272d8d017bd36c9)), unknown unknown
PASS   : tst_affectors::initTestCase()
Heap resize call from 16777216 to 20185088 took 0 msecs. Success: true
Heap resize call from 20185088 to 24248320 took 0 msecs. Success: true
Heap resize call from 24248320 to 29097984 took 0 msecs. Success: true
Heap resize call from 29097984 to 34930688 took 0.3999999761581421 msecs. Success: true
Heap resize call from 34930688 to 41943040 took 0.19999998807907104 msecs. Success: true
PASS   : tst_affectors::test_basic(16ms)
RESULT : tst_affectors::test_basic():"16ms":
     0.059 msecs per iteration (total: 61, iterations: 1024)
Heap resize call from 41943040 to 50331648 took 0.30000001192092896 msecs. Success: true
PASS   : tst_affectors::test_basic(32ms)
RESULT : tst_affectors::test_basic():"32ms":
     0.11 msecs per iteration (total: 59, iterations: 512)
Heap resize call from 50331648 to 60424192 took 0.30000001192092896 msecs. Success: true
PASS   : tst_affectors::test_basic(100ms)
RESULT : tst_affectors::test_basic():"100ms":
     0.15 msecs per iteration (total: 81, iterations: 512)
Heap resize call from 60424192 to 72548352 took 0.30000001192092896 msecs. Success: true
PASS   : tst_affectors::test_basic(500ms)
RESULT : tst_affectors::test_basic():"500ms":
     0.58 msecs per iteration (total: 75, iterations: 128)
Heap resize call from 72548352 to 87097344 took 0.3999999761581421 msecs. Success: true
PASS   : tst_affectors::test_filtered(16ms)
RESULT : tst_affectors::test_filtered():"16ms":
     0.10 msecs per iteration (total: 52, iterations: 512)
Heap resize call from 87097344 to 104529920 took 0.30000001192092896 msecs. Success: true
PASS   : tst_affectors::test_filtered(32ms)
RESULT : tst_affectors::test_filtered():"32ms":
     0.12 msecs per iteration (total: 64, iterations: 512)
PASS   : tst_affectors::test_filtered(100ms)
RESULT : tst_affectors::test_filtered():"100ms":
     0.19 msecs per iteration (total: 51, iterations: 256)
Heap resize call from 104529920 to 125435904 took 0.20000001788139343 msecs. Success: true
PASS   : tst_affectors::test_filtered(500ms)
RESULT : tst_affectors::test_filtered():"500ms":
     0.61 msecs per iteration (total: 79, iterations: 128)
PASS   : tst_affectors::cleanupTestCase()
Totals: 10 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped, 0 blacklisted, 9728ms
********* Finished testing of tst_affectors *********

********* Start testing of tst_emission *********
Config: Using QtTest library 6.2.0, Qt 6.2.0 (wasm-little_endian-ilp32 static debug build; by Clang 13.0.0 (/b/s/w/ir/cache/git/chromium.googlesource.com-external-github.com-llvm-llvm--project 5852582532b3eb3ea8da51a1e272d8d017bd36c9)), unknown unknown
PASS   : tst_emission::initTestCase()
Heap resize call from 16777216 to 20185088 took 0 msecs. Success: true
Heap resize call from 20185088 to 24248320 took 0 msecs. Success: true
Heap resize call from 24248320 to 29097984 took 0 msecs. Success: true
Heap resize call from 29097984 to 34930688 took 0.29999998211860657 msecs. Success: true
PASS   : tst_emission::test_basic(16ms)
RESULT : tst_emission::test_basic():"16ms":
     0.046 msecs per iteration (total: 95, iterations: 2048)
Heap resize call from 34930688 to 41943040 took 0 msecs. Success: true
PASS   : tst_emission::test_basic(32ms)
RESULT : tst_emission::test_basic():"32ms":
     0.090 msecs per iteration (total: 93, iterations: 1024)
Heap resize call from 41943040 to 50331648 took 0.29999998211860657 msecs. Success: true
PASS   : tst_emission::test_basic(100ms)
RESULT : tst_emission::test_basic():"100ms":
     0.27 msecs per iteration (total: 70, iterations: 256)
Heap resize call from 50331648 to 60424192 took 0.4000000059604645 msecs. Success: true
PASS   : tst_emission::test_basic(500ms)
RESULT : tst_emission::test_basic():"500ms":
     1.3 msecs per iteration (total: 85, iterations: 64)
Heap resize call from 60424192 to 72548352 took 0.4000000059604645 msecs. Success: true
PASS   : tst_emission::test_basic(1000ms)
RESULT : tst_emission::test_basic():"1000ms":
     1.3 msecs per iteration (total: 87, iterations: 64)
PASS   : tst_emission::test_basic(10000ms)
RESULT : tst_emission::test_basic():"10000ms":
     1.3 msecs per iteration (total: 86, iterations: 64)
PASS   : tst_emission::cleanupTestCase()
Totals: 8 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped, 0 blacklisted, 6017ms
********* Finished testing of tst_emission *********


Firefox has similar results:


firefox nosimd:

    ********* Start testing of tst_affectors *********
    Config: Using QtTest library 6.2.0, Qt 6.2.0 (wasm-little_endian-ilp32 static debug build; by Clang 13.0.0 (/opt/s/w/ir/cache/git/chromium.googlesource.com-external-github.com-llvm-llvm--project 5f3c99085d4c2ebf57fd0586b013b02e32a8e20b)), unknown unknown
    PASS   : tst_affectors::initTestCase()
    Heap resize call from 16777216 to 20185088 took 0 msecs. Success: true qtloader.js line 443 > eval:11829:17
    Heap resize call from 20185088 to 24248320 took 0 msecs. Success: true qtloader.js line 443 > eval:11829:17
    Heap resize call from 24248320 to 29097984 took 0 msecs. Success: true qtloader.js line 443 > eval:11829:17
    PASS   : tst_affectors::test_basic(16ms)
    RESULT : tst_affectors::test_basic():"16ms":
         0.81 msecs per iteration (total: 52, iterations: 64)
    PASS   : tst_affectors::test_basic(32ms)
    RESULT : tst_affectors::test_basic():"32ms":
         1.1 msecs per iteration (total: 76, iterations: 64)
    PASS   : tst_affectors::test_basic(100ms)
    RESULT : tst_affectors::test_basic():"100ms":
         2.4 msecs per iteration (total: 79, iterations: 32)
    Heap resize call from 29097984 to 34930688 took 17 msecs. Success: true qtloader.js line 443 > eval:11829:17
    PASS   : tst_affectors::test_basic(500ms)
    RESULT : tst_affectors::test_basic():"500ms":
         9.1 msecs per iteration (total: 73, iterations: 8)
    PASS   : tst_affectors::test_filtered(16ms)
    RESULT : tst_affectors::test_filtered():"16ms":
         2.3 msecs per iteration (total: 74, iterations: 32)
    PASS   : tst_affectors::test_filtered(32ms)
    RESULT : tst_affectors::test_filtered():"32ms":
         2.6 msecs per iteration (total: 86, iterations: 32)
    PASS   : tst_affectors::test_filtered(100ms)
    RESULT : tst_affectors::test_filtered():"100ms":
         3.8 msecs per iteration (total: 62, iterations: 16)
    Heap resize call from 34930688 to 41943040 took 0 msecs. Success: true qtloader.js line 443 > eval:11829:17
    PASS   : tst_affectors::test_filtered(500ms)
    RESULT : tst_affectors::test_filtered():"500ms":
         11 msecs per iteration (total: 88, iterations: 8)
    PASS   : tst_affectors::cleanupTestCase()
    Totals: 10 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped, 0 blacklisted, 16781ms
    ********* Finished testing of tst_affectors *********    
        
     ********* Start testing of tst_emission *********
     Config: Using QtTest library 6.2.0, Qt 6.2.0 (wasm-little_endian-ilp32 static debug build; by Clang 13.0.0 (/opt/s/w/ir/cache/git/chromium.googlesource.com-external-github.com-llvm-llvm--project 5f3c99085d4c2ebf57fd0586b013b02e32a8e20b)), unknown unknown
     PASS   : tst_emission::initTestCase()
     Heap resize call from 16777216 to 20185088 took 0 msecs. Success: true qtloader.js line 443 > eval:11829:17
     Heap resize call from 20185088 to 24248320 took 0 msecs. Success: true qtloader.js line 443 > eval:11829:17
     Heap resize call from 24248320 to 29097984 took 0 msecs. Success: true qtloader.js line 443 > eval:11829:17
     PASS   : tst_emission::test_basic(16ms)
     RESULT : tst_emission::test_basic():"16ms":
          2.1 msecs per iteration (total: 70, iterations: 32)
     PASS   : tst_emission::test_basic(32ms)
     RESULT : tst_emission::test_basic():"32ms":
          4.1 msecs per iteration (total: 67, iterations: 16)
     PASS   : tst_emission::test_basic(100ms)
     RESULT : tst_emission::test_basic():"100ms":
          8.1 msecs per iteration (total: 65, iterations: 8)
     PASS   : tst_emission::test_basic(500ms)
     RESULT : tst_emission::test_basic():"500ms":
          43 msecs per iteration (total: 87, iterations: 2)
     PASS   : tst_emission::test_basic(1000ms)
     RESULT : tst_emission::test_basic():"1000ms":
          43 msecs per iteration (total: 86, iterations: 2)
     PASS   : tst_emission::test_basic(10000ms)
     RESULT : tst_emission::test_basic():"10000ms":
          43 msecs per iteration (total: 86, iterations: 2)
     PASS   : tst_emission::cleanupTestCase()
     Totals: 8 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped, 0 blacklisted, 4178ms
     ********* Finished testing of tst_emission *********
                 ======================================================================
======================================================================
                
                                         
firefox SIMD:


    ********* Start testing of tst_affectors *********
    Config: Using QtTest library 6.2.0, Qt 6.2.0 (wasm-little_endian-ilp32 static debug build; by Clang 13.0.0 (/b/s/w/ir/cache/git/chromium.googlesource.com-external-github.com-llvm-llvm--project 5852582532b3eb3ea8da51a1e272d8d017bd36c9)), unknown unknown
    PASS   : tst_affectors::initTestCase()
    Heap resize call from 16777216 to 20185088 took 0 msecs. Success: true
    Heap resize call from 20185088 to 24248320 took 0 msecs. Success: true
    Heap resize call from 24248320 to 29097984 took 0 msecs. Success: true
    Heap resize call from 29097984 to 34930688 took 0 msecs. Success: true
    PASS   : tst_affectors::test_basic(16ms)
    RESULT : tst_affectors::test_basic():"16ms":
         0.14 msecs per iteration (total: 73, iterations: 512)
    Heap resize call from 34930688 to 41943040 took 0 msecs. Success: true
    Heap resize call from 41943040 to 50331648 took 1 msecs. Success: true
    PASS   : tst_affectors::test_basic(32ms)
    RESULT : tst_affectors::test_basic():"32ms":
         0.21 msecs per iteration (total: 54, iterations: 256)
    Heap resize call from 50331648 to 60424192 took 5 msecs. Success: true
    PASS   : tst_affectors::test_basic(100ms)
    RESULT : tst_affectors::test_basic():"100ms":
         0.45 msecs per iteration (total: 58, iterations: 128)
    PASS   : tst_affectors::test_basic(500ms)
    RESULT : tst_affectors::test_basic():"500ms":
         1.8 msecs per iteration (total: 60, iterations: 32)
    Heap resize call from 60424192 to 72548352 took 7 msecs. Success: true
    PASS   : tst_affectors::test_filtered(16ms)
    RESULT : tst_affectors::test_filtered():"16ms":
         0.28 msecs per iteration (total: 73, iterations: 256)
    Heap resize call from 72548352 to 87097344 took 0 msecs. Success: true
    PASS   : tst_affectors::test_filtered(32ms)
    RESULT : tst_affectors::test_filtered():"32ms":
         0.35 msecs per iteration (total: 90, iterations: 256)
    PASS   : tst_affectors::test_filtered(100ms)
    RESULT : tst_affectors::test_filtered():"100ms":
         0.60 msecs per iteration (total: 77, iterations: 128)
    Heap resize call from 87097344 to 104529920 took 0 msecs. Success: true
    PASS   : tst_affectors::test_filtered(500ms)
    RESULT : tst_affectors::test_filtered():"500ms":
         2.0 msecs per iteration (total: 66, iterations: 32)
    PASS   : tst_affectors::cleanupTestCase()
    Totals: 10 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped, 0 blacklisted, 6411ms
    ********* Finished testing of tst_affectors *********
                                                
    ********* Start testing of tst_emission *********
    Config: Using QtTest library 6.2.0, Qt 6.2.0 (wasm-little_endian-ilp32 static debug build; by Clang 13.0.0 (/b/s/w/ir/cache/git/chromium.googlesource.com-external-github.com-llvm-llvm--project 5852582532b3eb3ea8da51a1e272d8d017bd36c9)), unknown unknown
    PASS   : tst_emission::initTestCase()
    Heap resize call from 16777216 to 20185088 took 0 msecs. Success: true
    Heap resize call from 20185088 to 24248320 took 0 msecs. Success: true
    Heap resize call from 24248320 to 29097984 took 0 msecs. Success: true
    Heap resize call from 29097984 to 34930688 took 0 msecs. Success: true
    PASS   : tst_emission::test_basic(16ms)
    RESULT : tst_emission::test_basic():"16ms":
         0.12 msecs per iteration (total: 65, iterations: 512)
    PASS   : tst_emission::test_basic(32ms)
    RESULT : tst_emission::test_basic():"32ms":
         0.24 msecs per iteration (total: 63, iterations: 256)
    Heap resize call from 34930688 to 41943040 took 0 msecs. Success: true
    PASS   : tst_emission::test_basic(100ms)
    RESULT : tst_emission::test_basic():"100ms":
         0.75 msecs per iteration (total: 97, iterations: 128)
    Heap resize call from 41943040 to 50331648 took 1 msecs. Success: true
    PASS   : tst_emission::test_basic(500ms)
    RESULT : tst_emission::test_basic():"500ms":
         3.6 msecs per iteration (total: 58, iterations: 16)
    Heap resize call from 50331648 to 60424192 took 4 msecs. Success: true
    PASS   : tst_emission::test_basic(1000ms)
    RESULT : tst_emission::test_basic():"1000ms":
         3.6 msecs per iteration (total: 58, iterations: 16)
    PASS   : tst_emission::test_basic(10000ms)
    RESULT : tst_emission::test_basic():"10000ms":
         3.6 msecs per iteration (total: 58, iterations: 16)
    PASS   : tst_emission::cleanupTestCase()
    Totals: 8 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped, 0 blacklisted, 3339ms
    ********* Finished testing of tst_emission *********



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Friday, April 2, 2021

Qt 6 WebAssembly QtQuick3d or, NOT April fools

 I am so happy right now! As of sha 4972fdb350fe79e18b0413e74028cd9b9803f96b (1 April), you can build Qt 6 for WebAssembly!

Not only that, because QtQuick3d in Qt 6 now supports OpenGL ES2/3, it will run in a web browser!

Here is a video of the helloquick3d example, running in Firefox: [edit] running at 62 fps

 
 
if that does not work, try this link:
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/532206713
 
Now I can get on with my life and stop working on build system stuff!

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Friday, January 22, 2021

Qt 6 WebAssembly

ahhh well now. We all know that in Qt6, qmake was ditched for cmake for the build system of Qt itself, and we are playing catch-up in the WebAssembly platform.

History

First a little history of the Qt build system.

tmake was a perl script that generates Makefiles. If I recall correctly, it was originally written by Sam Magnuson. (I am sure someone who started in Trolltech before me will correct me if I am wrong). I met Sam when he was working at Trolltech's Brisbane office when I was hired as Qtopia Community Liasion. (Briefly, as he soon moved back to the US, after he sold me some furnature and gave me his cat! Still have the Ikea chair.)

qmake was tmake re-written in c++, which was started around 2000. (OMG - its 21 years old! - so old, it farts dust!)

qmake was added on, hacked up to tackle all kinds of things, which brings us to Qt 6.

cmake: The behemoth.

Knowing next to nothing about cmake made this journey a bit bumpy. Add in all the stuff that Qt implements in cmake and on top of that, the special arguments we use for WebAssembly means I am glad this patch is about finished!

Some things are not yet working, such as using cmake to build Qt WebAssembly applications, luckily qmake for app builds is still there... for now.

First off, until this change gets integrated into the git repo, you can grab it here:

https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/313243

You will need:

  • Emscripten version 2.0.12 (others in the 2.0.x range should also work)
  • Ninja build tool (optional but highly recommended)
  • cmake (3.19 at least, I think)

Host build

One of the differences between Qt5 and Qt6 is that you will need a host build with the same versioning, since Qt WebAssembly is a cross platform build. In the near future, you will be able to install Qt binary release and use that, but for now, you need to build your host Qt yourself (to get the same version as the git repo).

You need a host build of both QtBase and QtDeclarative if you are to use declarative in your Qt WebAssembly apps.

WebAssembly build

On all platforms, you will need to set CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE and QT_HOST_PATH. Emscripten comes with a convient cmake toolchain file, so set the CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE to where ever it is installed. QT_HOST_PATH is set to where the Qt 6 host directory is.

Windows:

Just like with Qt5, you will need the Mingw toolchain installed.

On windows, we can use the mingw toolchain that gets installed with Qt binaries, so make sure mingw32-make is in your PATH. I usually do this after I run emsdk_env.bat to set up the Emscripten toolchain. To configure Qt, I use something like:

cmake -DCMAKE_GENERATOR=Ninja  -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=H:\development\emsdk\upstream\emscripten\cmake\Modules\Platform\Emscripten.cmake -DFEATURE_developer_build=ON -DFEATURE_headersclean=OFF -DWARNINGS_ARE_ERRORS=OFF -DQT_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF -DQT_BUILD_TESTS=OFF -DQT_HOST_PATH=H:\development\platforms\desktop\qtbase H:\development\depot\qt\qt5\qtbase


Linux/Mac:

You will need gcc on Linux and Xcode 10.15 or greater on Mac.

cmake -DFEATURE_developer_build=ON
-DFEATURE_headersclean=OFF
-DWARNINGS_ARE_ERRORS=OFF
-DQT_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF
-DQT_BUILD_TESTS=OFF
-DCMAKE_GENERATOR=Ninja
-DQT_HOST_PATH=/development/platforms/desktop/qtbase
-DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=/emsdk/upstream/emscripten/cmake/Modules/Platform/Emscripten.cmake
/depot/qt/qt5/qtbase

There are a couple experimental features you can configure Qt for, such as
  • threads:  -DFEATURE_threads=On
I have probably forgotten something important, but this will get someone started that is interested. I have tested this build on Linux, Mac and Windows.

QtDeclarative:

To configure declarative using cmake, it's fairly straight forward. In the qtbase/bin directory is a helper tool:
qt-configure-module ~/depot/qt/qt5/qtdeclarative


Application builds:

For now, you can use qmake in the old fashioned way to configure applications.

See also the Qt WebAssembly wiki: https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_for_WebAssembly

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