Wouldn't that data be held in the language's kernel? When I load a 4GB file into memory in Jupyter, the memory is allocated in the python kernel, not the browse

Wouldn't that data be held in the language's kernel? When I load a 4GB file into memory in Jupyter, the memory is allocated in the python kernel, not the browser. Although I guess your point would be valid for iodide.io which seems to run everything in the browser.