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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Stringref as a toolchain concept","articleBody":"So, the CG does not currently have consensus to move stringref forward.  It may in the future, but that's not where we're at right now.\r\n\r\nFor the moment, the [Hoot compiler](https://gitlab.com/spritely/guile-hoot) does emit stringref, but to ship to current WebAssembly, it lowers strings to WTF-8 arrays (`array i8`).  For information on what kinds of use-cases stringref is fulfilling for Hoot, see the lower-stringref pass: https://gitlab.com/spritely/guile-hoot/-/blob/main/module/wasm/lower-stringrefs.scm.  There is a discussion of the tradeoffs in the top of that file.\r\n\r\nSo, in summary, it is possible to be productive with stringref on the toolchain level, even in the world where stringref is not available on the wasm hosts.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/wingo","@type":"Person","name":"wingo"},"datePublished":"2023-10-17T08:44:42.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":3},"url":"https://github.com/64/stringref/issues/64"}