Announcing the Bytecode Alliance

Posted Nov 13, 2019 22:38 UTC (Wed) by heftig (subscriber, #73632)
In reply to: Announcing the Bytecode Alliance by ballombe
Parent article: Announcing the Bytecode Alliance

How many of the processes on your system use more than 4G of virtual memory? How many operating systems / distributions still support 32-bit architectures? I don't think it's as much of a barrier as you imply. Support for larger memory spaces can come later.

Announcing the Bytecode Alliance

Posted Nov 14, 2019 16:35 UTC (Thu) by mageta (subscriber, #89696) [Link]

Processes with more than 4G - or rather 3G, because of the kernel - address space is not nearly as seldom as you seem to think. Linker, Browsers, DBMS, Compressors, even freaking PDF-readers are hoarding address space.

Announcing the Bytecode Alliance

Posted Nov 14, 2019 23:09 UTC (Thu) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

>How many of the processes on your system use more than 4G of virtual memory?

Ironically the only things consuming more than 4GB on mine are also the ones with wasm runtimes. Firefox has a single process consuming 20.6GB vm, and liferea has no less than two hundred and sixty two gigabytes reserved for displaying a dozen RSS feeds. They get very angry and confused when I turn overcommit off.