Ah never mind, I missed the whole "at runtime" part. 

On Thursday, 24 September 2020 at 11:32:17 UTC+2 Floh wrote:

> From what I'm seeing in settings.js, INITIAL_MEMORY has the same behaviour 
> as the old TOTAL_MEMORY? If I remember right I still had to set that in 
> WASM if the initial memory usage of my code is bigger than the default 
> initial memory size (for instance when using very big, uninitialized global 
> variables, those don't bloat the WASM module size, but can result in a big 
> initial memory requirement), otherwise WASM startup would fail.
>
> As long as this situation (very big global variables) works automatically, 
> I think I'm fine with the change :)
> On Wednesday, 23 September 2020 at 23:54:15 UTC+2 [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
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> cheers,
>> sam
>>
>

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