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Unfortunately 64bit address suppport does the opposite, that comes with a non-trivial performance penalty because it breaks the tricks that were used to minimiz
by jsheard 1y ago
Unfortunately 64bit address suppport does the opposite, that comes with a non-trivial performance penalty because it breaks the tricks that were used to minimize sandboxing overhead in 32bit mode.
https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2025/01/15/is-memory64-actually-worth-using.html https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2025/01/15/is-memory64-actuall...
- pmarreck 1y ago1) This may be temporary. 2) The bounds checking argument is a problem, I guess? 3) This article makes no mention of type-checking, which is also a new feature, which moves some checks that normally only run at runtime to only needing to be checked once at compile time, and this may include bounds-style checks