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Learn WebAssembly
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Learn WebAssembly

by Mike Rourke
September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
328 pages
9h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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WebAssembly.Memory

The WebAssembly.Memory object holds the memory accessed by a WebAssembly Instance. This memory can be accessed and changed from both JavaScript and WebAssembly. To create a new instance of Memory, you need to pass an object with an initial and (optional) maximum value to the WebAssembly.Memory() constructor. These values are in units of WebAssembly pages, where one page is 64 KB. You increase the size of the memory instance by calling the grow() function with a single parameter that represents the number of WebAssembly pages to grow by. You can also access the current buffer contained in the memory instance through its buffer property.

MDN describes two ways to get to a WebAssembly.Memory object. The first way is to construct ...

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