Out of curiosity, how does pthreads handle this? I'd been under the
impression that importing the existing memory was required when
instantiating the module on each worker.

-- brion


On Wed, Sep 23, 2020, 2:54 PM 'Sam Clegg' via emscripten-discuss <
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> 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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