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Re:The history of Unix's confusing set of low-level ways to ... by panic on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @10:42PM (#29090529)
It's worth noting that WebAssembly, at least for the moment, only supports a single brk/sbrk-style growable heap -- allocators targeting the web can't use any of the mmap tricks.
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Re:The history of Unix's confusing set of low-level ways to ... by afr0ck on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @12:18AM (#29091058)
Pardon my ignorance, but I'm really curious to know why?
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Re:The history of Unix's confusing set of low-level ways to ... by panic on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @12:43AM (#29091177)
The FAQ has a "what about mmap?" section which gives some justification: https://webassembly.org/docs/faq/#what-about-mmap
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