Continuation type encoding
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- wasm
- Domain
- compilers
Research direction
Start by reading the discussion in issue #89, then compare the three continuation type-index encodings listed here: u32, zero-valued u8 followed by u32, and s33. Done means reaching and documenting a decision about the encoding and its future extension implications.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Description
This is a tracking issue to continue the discussion in #89.
We can encode the type (cont $ft) in different ways. The interesting part is the encoding of the type index $ft. Some possible ways we can encode the type index:
- as a
u32, - as a zero-valued
u8followed by au32, - or as a
s33.
The latter two options give a natural "extension" point, enabling us to attach additional metadata to continuation types in the future.
- Dominant language
- WebAssembly
- Stars
- 216
- Forks
- 19
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Contributor guide
First steps
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- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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