WebAssembly/memory-control
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A proposal to introduce finer grained control of WebAssembly memory.
10 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 1 story, 9 comments · first 2022-06-27 · latest 2026-05-20
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…sure you can't do that with asmjs either. There is a proposal for zero-copy buffers with wasm: https://github.com/WebAssembly/memory-control/blob/main/prop...
comment by eqrion · 2026-05-20 · in Saying goodbye to asm.js -
…The whole Apple Silicon thing is (in this case) just added details that don't actually matter. [1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/memory-control/blob/main/prop...
comment by nl · 2026-04-19 · in Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon -
…of a proposal to fix this but have not been able to prioritize it for a while, unfortunately: https://github.com/WebAssembly/memory-control/blob/main/prop...
comment by bvisness · 2026-03-13 · in Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web -
…for shrinking the WebAssembly.Memory object? - https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/1397 - https://github.com/WebAssembly/memory-control/issues/6 This is a crucial issue, as the released memory is still allocated by the browser.
comment by baxuz · 2025-09-17 · in WASM 3.0 Completed -
Indeed, webassembly is moving extremely slowly. I started a project years ago expecting https://github.com/WebAssembly/memory-control/blob/main/prop... and https://github.com/WebAssembly/memory64 to be fixed at some point. Neither are yet,…
comment by vouwfietsman · 2023-10-04 · in Extism makes WebAssembly easy -
Additionally, googlers are championing memory control https://github.com/WebAssembly/memory-control/blob/main/prop... , which provides memory protection, as well as memory 64, which is already done in chrome and firefox…
comment by phickey · 2023-03-24 · in The tug-of-war over server-side WebAssembly -
…rawly and is not prepared to encounter holes (OS-level signals). That said, we are working on this: https://github.com/WebAssembly/memory-control
comment by titzer · 2022-06-27 · in WebAssembly and C++ -
…restoring the trap-on-null-deref behavior that is important for many languages with safety checks. https://github.com/WebAssembly/memory-control
comment by titzer · 2022-06-27 · in WebAssembly and C++ -
…be implemented into WASM. Maybe, the following proposal on memory control will add the option: https://github.com/WebAssembly/memory-control/blob/master/pr...
comment by s-macke · 2022-06-27 · in WebAssembly and C++