v1.7.1

Hiya folks, time to celebrate the new wazero release again! The last release 1.7.0 was such a blast so this new 1.7.1 is a little bit boring compared to it, but it still has some niceties!

This patch release has basically two major things: various bug fixes and experimental memory allocation API!

Bug fixes

Since the release of 1.7.0, several community members (@jerbob92, @anuraaga and @davidmdm) tried the new optimizing compiler and reported some bugs. @mathetake and @evacchi worked on the fix and all the reported bugs were removed. Notably, the arm64 compiler has become more robust against huge binaries like the ones produced by the Go official compiler, in addition to a corner case in the bounds check elimination optimization pass applied to both arm64 and amd64.

Experimental Memory Allocator API

The experimental Memory Allocator API has been added to our experimental friends by @ncruces in collaboration with @achille-roussel. This allows you to control how to allocate the linear memory of Wasm instance. For instance, you can use a memory mapped buffer as a Wasm linear memory. This is highly advanced feature hence requires a lot of detailed knowledge on how Wasm module works. If this is something interesting to you, we highly recommend to talk to @ncruces who is an expert in here ;)

Other Contributions

• it is now possible to successfully build wazero with TinyGo compiler thanks to the contributions by @deadprogram and @orsinium
• @ncruces helped clean up the dead codes and experimental packages.