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 >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "emscripten-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/emscripten-discuss/32c0feff-a884-407f-8f29-d5a3198a0c8dn%40googlegroups.com.
