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threatofrain
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I believe JS has access to 64-bit.
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petilon
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JS has access to 64-bit floating point, not int.
tyleregeto
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JS has BigInt support, a quick Google tells me this is supported by wasm. I'm not sure if they are doing that here or not.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
tempay
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BigInt is often orders of magnitude less performant than int32 so it's unlikely to be helpful in this situation.
pwython
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Unless you're compiling from something like Cheerp.
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