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Re:WASM: Big Deal or Little Deal? by 3cats-in-a-coat on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @10:30AM (#37392192)
I wonder if you have an object whose state has that same schema tied to a DataView offset if it'd be much different tbh.
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Re:WASM: Big Deal or Little Deal? by paulgb on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @11:36AM (#37393145)
You could create a JS object with accessor functions that stores an offset, but the object itself still takes up heap space. In Rust, it would just be a (typed) pointer to the position in the buffer and wouldn't require an allocation.
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Re:WASM: Big Deal or Little Deal? by 3cats-in-a-coat on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @01:33PM (#37395094)
It's trivial to fix with an ECS layout, but the point is does it matter.
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