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Isn't the whole reason they're adding 64 bit addresses to support websites which want to use over 4GiB? What other reason could there be?
by mort96 2y ago
Isn't the whole reason they're adding 64 bit addresses to support websites which want to use over 4GiB? What other reason could there be?
- mwkaufma 2y agoThe website may want to, but I don't.
- flohofwoe 2y agoYes, but think of DCC applications like Figma which might run into the 4 GB restriction with large data sets, not regular websites which run a couple of WebGL demos written in C. ...also WASM is starting to become popular outside the browser where requirements might be very different from running stuff in webpages.
- mwkaufma 2y agoLet figma ask me for explicit permission first, then, as opposed to making Memory64 support implicitly available.
- flohofwoe 2y ago...what's different than running any other application that uses more than 4 GB RAM on your computer, and why exactly 4 GB and not any other number? You can easily check the per-page memory footprint in Chrome's task manager and decide not to use such 'memory hogs'.
- mort96 2y agoApps don't suddenly start running just from clicking a link, the relationship with websites is inherently adversarial while the relationship with apps is typically not