Browser support + marginally smaller modules#1
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HerrCai0907 merged 3 commits intoAssemblyScript:mainfrom May 28, 2025
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This is just a small micro-optimization using converge and inline.always to remove a few bytes off of the final .wasm size. Sadly, we can't use "shrinkLevel": 3 since that gives imprecise results.
This confused me for a couple minutes when testing out "shrinkLevel": 3.
Browsers don't have Node.js's Buffer, nor do they have any reasonable way to decode base64. Luckily, `WebAssembly.instantiateStreaming` allows using the results of `fetch`, which in turn can accept base64 data URIs.
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Browsers don't have
Buffer, but we can usefetchwith data URIs withWebAssembly.instantiateStreaming.One caveat: AssemblyScript supports Node v18+, but
WebAssembly.instantiateStreamingwas added in v18.1.0. This means AssemblyScript would have to bump itsengines.nodeto be>=18.1.0, which is a breaking change but not a particularly impactful one. We can also just bump it to>=20since Node v18 has reached end-of-life.