node, chrome, etc. already support the current WASM SIMD proposal
I hacked up a WAT file with this inside a function body and compiled it with wat2wasm --enable-simd
(local $2 v128)
(set_local $2
(i8x16.splat (i32.const 8))
)
And I get an error "invalid local type" when I try to run it within Node.