Comment by burntcaramel

I’ve been surprised how feasible static allocation has been. I thought it would be too restrictive and you’d be constantly hitting a wall. I’m writing WebAssembly in Zig/Odin/C and I’ve been able to have a linter reject the `memory.grow` wasm instruction and just use fixed-sized buffers in my code.

It me you think “ok, how big do I want the maximum image to be?” I’ve settled on 25 megapixels, which in the hundreds of megabytes. Since most images are much smaller, I believe on all mainstream hosts the memory isn’t paged in until it is first read/write so the memory footprint is much smaller.