I still hope to investigate using a hand-written wasm module as a library called from an Emscripten compiled program. To do this I will need to be able to get each to use the same malloc and wasmMemory. Will this change prevent such a thing from being done?
Regards
-Mark
> On Sep 23, 2020, at 14:53, 'Sam Clegg' via emscripten-discuss
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I recently made a change to start exporting the table from the WebAssembly
> module:
> https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/pull/12296
> <https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/pull/12296>
>
> I'm hoping to followup with a similar change for the WebAssembly memory
> (a.k.a `wasmMemory):
> https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/issues/12315
> <https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/issues/12315>
>
> If we go ahead with this change it will mean the WebAssembly module is in
> charge of creating and exporting the memory rather than JavaScript. One
> potential downside here is that it removes the ability to adjust the memory
> size and runtime, or supply your own memory (i.e. it removes the ability to
> set `wasmMemory` or `INITIAL_MEMORY` on the Module object.
>
> However there are many upsides to doing this:
> - Reduced JS size and complexity
> - Consistency with standalone more
> - WebAssembly is more self-contained
> - Easier to load and run emscripten-built WebAssembly modules in other
> environments.
>
> I'd like to found out how many developers out there are settings `wasmMemory`
> or `INITIAL_MEMORY` at runtime to see how likely it is that we might be able
> to make this switch. Is possible of course that we could support both
> modes.. although I would prefer not to.
>
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