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Memory with 64-bit indexes

11 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 2 stories, 9 comments · first 2020-05-14 · latest 2024-11-07

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    Memory64
    story by tosh · 2024-11-07 · 50 comments
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    WASM memory64 reaches stage 4
    story by jpavel2 · 2024-11-06 · 0 comments
  3. …still makes sense to stick with wasm32 even when wasm64 is available. PS: see discussion here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/memory64/issues/3
  4. …surprised by the memory and 32 bit limitations... Are there plans to overcome them? Edit: found it, https://github.com/WebAssembly/memory64
  5. https://github.com/WebAssembly/memory64/blob/main/proposals/... For your second one, it looks like it is already implemented in Chromium and Firefox but not Safari. Sadly, it's not new for Apple to be dragging their feet on moving web…
    comment by chrisco255 · 2023-10-04 · in Extism makes WebAssembly easy
  6. …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, and the project still suffers from it to this day. I…
    comment by vouwfietsman · 2023-10-04 · in Extism makes WebAssembly easy
  7. It's in the works: https://github.com/WebAssembly/memory64 Starting with 32bit had some performance advantages because 64bit runtimes can use virtual memory shenanigans to implement bounds checking with zero overhead. In wasm64 they'll…
  8. …which provides memory protection, as well as memory 64, which is already done in chrome and firefox https://github.com/WebAssembly/memory64/blob/main/proposals/...
  9. …for WebGPU soon! (WebGPU is the successor to WebGL, which is coming out in April 2023 [3]) [1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/memory64/issues/36#issuecomme... [2] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/VomzP... [3]…
    comment by xenova · 2023-03-17 · in Transformers.js
  10. Maybe not: https://github.com/WebAssembly/memory64/blob/main/proposals/...
    comment by tyingq · 2022-07-17 · in Why am I excited about WebAssembly?
  11. As is mentioned in the article, u64 was used to future proof for wasm's upcoming memory64 type: https://github.com/WebAssembly/memory64/blob/master/proposal...
    comment by snek · 2020-05-14 · in Up to 4GB of Memory in WebAssembly