cfallin commented on issue #1060:
This issue has been open for 3.5 years without any movement and it seems by now calling our heaps
heap
has been baked into our mental models and the code, so a proposal to rename a basic entity would need a fairly strong argument. In the absence of compelling reasons, avoiding confusing name-changes in our public APIs/IR concepts is probably the right call. So I'll go ahead and close this, but others please speak up if you feel strongly about renaming still.
cfallin closed issue #1060:
"Heap" is a pretty generic term, but Cranelift's
Heap
is a very specific construct. What if we renamed Cranelift's "Heap" to "LinearMemory", since it's essentially a WebAssembly linear memory with a few more knobs exposed?And perhaps we could shorten it to "linearmem" in some places, so that
heap_addr
would belinearmem_addr
. Or maybelinmem_addr
? Or maybelinear_addr
?
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