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Really impressive work. Would love to see it progress.

Some ways I can see it could improve:

  1. setjmp/longjmp could implemented via Wasm Exceptions (this is how we do it on WASIX) - no need to wait on stack switching proposal
  2. fork could work easily with asyncify (start/resume), per binary compiled
  3. JIT could work via dlopen/dlsym (compiling the Wasm and linking it), even with runtime patching (using memory spaces on tables and updating them as you go to newly compiled code).
In general, I recommend taking an inspiration from WASIX [1] for those things, as we have spend quite a bit of time to make things work as much as possible!

[1] https://wasix.org/

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