Larger wasm modules fail silently to load

I’m on a low-end device and find whether or not I can run wasm i build within a-shell seems related to how many lines of code i compile, and to change from run to run, making it hard to troubleshoot.

When my build output is 1.4MB, it runs. When it is 1.8MB, the terminal pauses briefly and then returns to a prompt, not even executing the beginning of the code.

Is this expected? Is it possible to output an error when it happens so the user can understand what is going on?