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Re:WebAssembly is more than the web by amelius on Saturday July 14, 2018 @04:49AM (#17529457)
> There are only four types in wasm: int32, int64, float32, and float64.

You can't directly address and manipulate a single byte in WASM?

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Re:WebAssembly is more than the web by panic on Saturday July 14, 2018 @05:02AM (#17529485)
You can address bytes (using instructions like i32.load8_u), but doing arithmetic with them can be awkward.
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