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| <h2 id="why-use-native-client">Why use Native Client?</h2>
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| <p>Native Client open-source technology is designed to run compiled code
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| securely inside a browser at near-native speeds. Native Client puts web
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| -applications on the same playing field as traditional (locally-run)
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| -software—it provides the means to fully harness the client’s computational
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| -resources for applications such as 3D games, multimedia editors, CAD modeling,
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| +applications on the same playing field as desktop software—it provides the
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| +means to fully harness the client’s computational resources for applications
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| +such as 3D games, multimedia editors, CAD modeling,
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| client-side data analytics, and interactive simulations.
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| Native Client also aims to give C and C++ (and eventually other languages) the
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| same level of portability and safety that JavaScript provides on the web today.</p>
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| -<p>Here are a few of the key benefits that Native Client offers:</p>
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| +<p>Important benefits of Native Client include:</p>
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| <ul class="small-gap">
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| -<li><strong>Graphics, audio, and much more:</strong> Run native code modules that render 2D
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| +<li><strong>Graphics, audio, and much more:</strong> Runing native code modules that render 2D
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| and 3D graphics, play audio, respond to mouse and keyboard events, run on
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| multiple threads, and access memory directly—all without requiring
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| the user to install a plugin.</li>
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| -<li><strong>Portability:</strong> Write your applications once and you’ll be able to run them
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| -across operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mac, and Chrome OS) and CPU
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| -architectures (x86 and ARM).</li>
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| -<li><strong>Easy migration path to the web:</strong> Many developers and companies have years
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| -of work invested in existing desktop applications. Native Client makes the
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| -transition from the desktop to a web application significantly easier because
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| -it supports C and C++.</li>
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| -<li><strong>Security:</strong> Native Client uses a double sandbox model designed to protect
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| -the user’s system from malicious or buggy applications. This model offers the
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| -safety of traditional web applications without sacrificing performance and
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| +<li><strong>Portability:</strong> Writing your applications once and running them on operating
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| +systems (Windows, Linux, Mac, and Chrome OS) and CPU architectures (x86 and
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| +ARM).</li>
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| +<li><strong>Easy migration path to the web:</strong> Leveraging years of work in existing
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| +desktop applications. Native Client makes the transition from the desktop to a
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| +web application significantly easier because it supports C and C++.</li>
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| +<li><strong>Security:</strong> Protecting the user’s system from malicious or buggy
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| +applications through Native Client’s double sandbox model. This model offers
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| +the safety of traditional web applications without sacrificing performance and
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| without requiring users to install a plugin.</li>
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| -<li><strong>Performance:</strong> Native Client allows web applications to run at speeds
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| -comparable to desktop applications (within 5-15% of native speed).
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| -Native Client also allows applications to harness all available CPU cores via
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| -a threading API; this enables demanding applications such as console-quality
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| -games to run inside the browser.</li>
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| +<li><strong>Performance:</strong> Running at speeds comparable to desktop applications (within
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| +5-15% of native speed). Native Client also allows applications to harness all
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| +available CPU cores via a threading API; this enables demanding applications
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| +such as console-quality games to run inside the browser.</li>
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| </ul>
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| </section><section id="common-use-cases">
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| <h2 id="common-use-cases">Common use cases</h2>
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| <p>Typical use cases for Native Client include the following:</p>
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| <ul class="small-gap">
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| <li><strong>Existing software components:</strong> With support for C and C++, Native
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| -Client enables you to reuse existing software modules in
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| -web applications—you don’t need to rewrite and debug code
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| -that’s already proven to work well.</li>
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| +Client lets you to reuse existing software modules in web applications. You
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| +don’t need to rewrite and debug code that already works.</li>
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| <li><strong>Legacy desktop applications:</strong> Native Client provides a smooth migration
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| path from desktop applications to the web. You can port and recompile existing
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| code for the computation engine of your application directly to Native Client,
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| -and need repurpose only the user interface and event handling portions to the
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| -new browser platform. Native Client allows you to embed existing functionality
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| -directly into the browser. At the same time, your application can take
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| -advantage of things the browser does well: handling user interaction and
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| -processing events, based on the latest developments in HTML5.</li>
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| +and need rebuild only the user interface and event handling portions for the
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| +browser.</li>
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| <li><strong>Heavy computation in enterprise applications:</strong> Native Client can handle the
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| number crunching required by large-scale enterprise applications. To ensure
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| protection of user data, Native Client enables you to build complex
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| <li><strong>Any application that requires acceleration</strong>: Native Client fits seamlessly
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| into web applications—it’s up to you to decide to what extent to use it.
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| Use of Native Client covers the full spectrum from complete applications to
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| -small optimized routines that accelerate vital parts of web apps.</li>
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| +small optimized routines that accelerate vital parts of web applications.</li>
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| </ul>
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| </section><section id="how-native-client-works">
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| <span id="link-how-nacl-works"></span><h2 id="how-native-client-works"><span id="link-how-nacl-works"></span>How Native Client works</h2>
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| -<p>Native Client is an umbrella name for a set of interrelated software components
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| -that work together to provide a way to develop C/C++ applications and run them
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| -securely on the web.</p>
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| +<p>Native Client is an umbrella name for a set of related software components that
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| +together to provide a way to develop C/C++ applications and run them securely
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| +on the web.</p>
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| <p>At a high level, Native Client consists of:</p>
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| <ul class="small-gap">
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| -<li><strong>Toolchains</strong>: collections of development tools (compilers, linkers, etc.)
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| +<li><strong>Toolchains</strong>: Collections of development tools (compilers, linkers, etc.)
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| that transform C/C++ code to Native Client modules.</li>
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| <li><strong>Runtime components</strong>: components embedded in the browser or other
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| host platforms that allow execution of Native Client modules
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| (PNaCl, pronounced “pinnacle”). Developers use the PNaCl toolchain
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| to produce a single, portable (<strong>pexe</strong>) module. At runtime, a translator
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| built into the browser translates the pexe into native code for the
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| -relevant client architecture.</p>
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| -<p>The right side of the diagram shows how to use traditional (non-portable)
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| -Native Client. Developers use a nacl-gcc based toolchain to produce multiple
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| +relevant client architecture. Translation occurs before any code is executed.</p>
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| +<p>The right side of the diagram shows how to use (non-portable) Native Client.
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| +Developers use a nacl-gcc based toolchain to produce multiple
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| architecture-dependent (<strong>nexe</strong>) modules, which are packaged into an
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| application. At runtime, the browser decides which nexe to load based
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| on the architecture of the client machine.</p>
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