WebAssembly / WebAssembly/spec

Structured cloning of WebAssembly.Memory is not defined

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Description

At least Gecko and WebKit support serializing & deserializing WebAssembly.Memory objects. Yet https://webassembly.github.io/spec/web-api/#serialization only covers WebAssembly.Module.

I also couldn't find test coverage for this on WPT.

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Research direction

Start with the Web API serialization section linked in the issue and compare its treatment of WebAssembly.Module with browser behavior for WebAssembly.Memory. Check the Web Platform Tests coverage, then define the missing serialization behavior and add tests that cover structured cloning and deserialization.

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Tech stack
wasm
Domain
api
Issue type
Feature
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4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
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