Ben L. Titzer

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Hmm, looks like a problem with the `readlink` utility, which is used by several shell scripts to figure out the director in which they reside. Do you have an alias...

I've fixed the V8 bug, and we now enforce the function size limit.

I still think it is a good idea that engines have a "gentleman's agreement" to enforce a static size limit for functions. I'm OK bumping up the 128k limit, but...

Should I merge this PR, or is its logic included in the #216 ?

Note this is a standard limit imposed by the JS API, it's not necessarily the same limit in other embedding contexts. Any limit is subject to future revision, but if...

Yes, the link you provided was into the JS-API documentation, which is technically separate from the core Wasm specification.

I think this is a fair point. One option on such platforms is to have a limited number, say < 2^20, pre-allocated, cached boxes. Thus for "really small" integers, no...

> I'd like to know how much supporting `cont.bind` costs programs that do not use it. AFAICT a continuation that has no bound arguments can be invoked without any register...

Interesting, and not too far-fetched. Currently the compiler can produce ELF and Mach-O x86-64 binaries. In both cases, the compiler inserts only a little bit of startup asm code, and...

> I'm interested in this as well. I've been developing a [kernel in Nim](https://0xc0ffee.netlify.app/osdev/), but I'm always on the lookout for interesting system programming languages. I'd love to give Virgil...