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If the heap were treated like a typed database, with transaction semantics, many of our problems with disappear. Layout should not be an implementation detail.
by nerpderp82 4y ago
If the heap were treated like a typed database, with transaction semantics, many of our problems with disappear. Layout should not be an implementation detail. I know Wasm won't solve this explicitly, but at least have a chance while everything is being redefined.
- robotresearcher 4y agoWouldn’t that move the data transformation costs from at I/O time to all the time?
- monocasa 4y agoNot if the encoding can simply be consumed in place, needing only a validation pass if it's coming from an untrusted source. Cap'n Proto is pretty close to that for one example.