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I see your point. Still, I believe the browser environment is different from a console since it is not supposed to monopolize system resources while being used. Managing memory in smaller short lived chunks is more fair for the system as a whole.

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Well, it's just about how much max memory you need at a time, no matter whether that size is split into many small chunks or allocated as a single block. True, an application which needs very little memory most of the time, and spikes to huge sizes from time to time is not optimal with emscripten's approach.

But I don't want to nitpick all day. The more options we have the better, keep up the good work :)

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