Comment by koolala
7 hours ago
32 is better for a lot of things like simd. the strength of it is wasm can do both types now and js can't unfortunately. a number in js is strictly 64.
7 hours ago
32 is better for a lot of things like simd. the strength of it is wasm can do both types now and js can't unfortunately. a number in js is strictly 64.
Not sure about SIMD. If you mean WASM, the main advantage of WASM32 over WASM64 is execution speed if it runs on a 64-bit runtime. This is because pointer accesses are simply 64-bit base pointer + 32/33-bit offset (the 32-bit pointer value in WASM program + some 32-bit optional offset). Since the offset in the memory access is already trimmed to 32/33-bit (in a 32-bit half of the register) at machine instruction level there is no possibility to escape the 8GB virtual memory cage that Chrome allocates, thus no need for additional runtime checks. WASM64, on the other hand, can escape without such checks.