[thewavelength]

Thanks!

1: True, although it also limits the addressable memory and the typical 4GB limit seems less these days. I’m thinking of large apps like Figma running in the browser.

2: Will existing 32-bit WASM binaries break on WASM64 engines or does the binary have a flag for compatibility?

[whizzter]

1: Something like Figma could probably offload some of the memory pressure to GPU textures. (But they'd probably run into safety browser limits before that).

2: Most runtimes are 64bit already, A runtime detecting a wasm32 binary will just continue to generate code with the current JIT compiler whilst WASM64 will require another JIT (and perhaps memory system since WASM32 runtimes are often based on "hacks" where 4gb of address space is reserved but not given real memory so that the JIT compiler gets an easier job without security implications).

[koolala]

what would make it break? i think the program just calls a 64 bit wasm memory function if it uses the capability