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I suppose, Postgres is portable, but it's portable to multi-tasking operating systems with virtual memory (which puts in a rather broad category of programs). This goes beyond wrapping how various system calls work on various platforms, but rather changing how accesses are generated, e.g. so backend 1 sees memory location 1 for its global field, backend 2 sees memory location 2 for that same global variable etc. Unlike functions that are frequently wrapped, there is no error code (save ones generated by a processor, e.g. segfault or bus error) or function called for loading an address.

Long story short, I think the need to bypass MMU hardware emulation would prove among the most difficult problems. It will probably require assistance from the compiler, I don't know enough about WASM to guess how mature such relocations would be.




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