alt Hacker NewsHow would this work in wasm land? It's a bit badly put question, because this leaves out a lot of context - wasm - where, how, what implementation, but from my simple understanding most of the wasm is 32-bit running in a browser. For this to work, it'll need true virtual 64-bit (or 48-bit) address space. The host, being the browser, or something else, may provide it, but....
If the host needs to load several of these .wasm, compiled with goose, then it'll have to run them in separate (browser) instances too (or maybe that's how wasm works by default - not sure).
It just got me thinking - the languge is prepared to translate into javascript workers, because it's really single threaded by nature with communication between threads (or put in the dart languages term "isolates"), which makes them perfect for the browser, now the only question is the memory layout.
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I don't know if it's applicable here, but Wasm programs can access multiple memories.
To run well, it doesn't just need wasm64 (which I worked on btw!) but it also needs the wasm64 memory to not commit until touched, or have a feature that allows Goose to do that. That and larger total memory. I pushed for that a while ago but I don't think it is possible today.