diff --git a/cart/as/build.js b/cart/as/build.js
index 4ab9815..003219d 100644
--- a/cart/as/build.js
+++ b/cart/as/build.js
@@ -19,8 +19,7 @@ await writeFile('build/tmp.ts', (await readFile('null0.ts')) + '\n// user-code:\
 const { error, stdout, stderr, stats } = await asc.main([
   'build/tmp.ts',
   // '--lowMemoryLimit',
-  '--initialMemory', '512',
-  '--maximumMemory', '512',
+  '--stackSize', '8092',
   '--runtime', 'stub',
   '--config', './node_modules/@assemblyscript/wasi-shim/asconfig.json',
   '--optimizeLevel', '3',
diff --git a/cart/as/src/assets/cyber.txt b/cart/as/src/assets/cyber.txt
index 69c97b4..8c8b365 100755
--- a/cart/as/src/assets/cyber.txt
+++ b/cart/as/src/assets/cyber.txt
@@ -1,3 +1 @@
 Disposable voodoo god crypto-sensory corporation beef noodles sprawl human engine monofilament neural. Marketing sensory office footage Legba alcohol man hotdog modem-space sentient. Office sign futurity silent gang industrial grade post. Kanji pre-franchise meta-render-farm corrupted spook city shanty town claymore mine-ware systema savant plastic Shibuya fluidity grenade. Plastic jeans post-courier systema film network convenience store. Car engine rebar into weathered refrigerator Shibuya realism assault-space hacker pre-Kowloon footage media network pen. Cartel tanto sentient knife hotdog network market tank-traps crypto-range-rover towards. Dome shrine stimulate nodality katana meta-pen futurity math-receding. 
-
-Sprawl DIY construct dolphin jeans-space fetishism gang Shibuya sunglasses market. Alcohol cyber-bomb dolphin soul-delay drone bridge into market convenience store render-farm BASE jump long-chain hydrocarbons pre-nodal point. Nodal point shoes skyscraper tiger-team convenience store stimulate papier-mache car katana. Skyscraper tank-traps shoes math-convenience store beef noodles face forwards assassin sub-orbital narrative semiotics weathered silent monofilament kanji RAF. Crypto-paranoid sensory uplink San Francisco rain knife systemic courier garage jeans. Military-grade shoes physical sensory cardboard geodesic Chiba semiotics motion futurity katana sprawl BASE jump. Bomb semiotics assassin A.I. 3D-printed augmented reality dolphin San Francisco meta. Systema tattoo construct neon into order-flow stimulate drugs 8-bit sign Legba. Fetishism cartel gang urban shrine nano-saturation point woman receding otaku monofilament 8-bit free-market rebar j-pop. 
diff --git a/cart/as/src/main.ts b/cart/as/src/main.ts
index 6a04b21..0c5dcf1 100644
--- a/cart/as/src/main.ts
+++ b/cart/as/src/main.ts
@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ export function load(): void {
   console.log(`Text-size: ${d.width.toString()}x${d.height.toString()}`)
   x = 160 - (d.width/2)
   y = 120 - (d.height/2)
-  const t = file_read("assets/cyber.txt")
   
-  // TODO: this currently spits out a bunch of extra bytes
-  console.log(String.UTF8.decode(t))
+  const t = file_read("assets/cyber.txt")
+  trace(t.byteLength.toString())
+  trace(String.UTF8.decode(t))
 }
 
 // called on every frame
diff --git a/null0_api/src/null0_api_wamr.h b/null0_api/src/null0_api_wamr.h
index 0f65e07..29b4388 100755
--- a/null0_api/src/null0_api_wamr.h
+++ b/null0_api/src/null0_api_wamr.h
@@ -775,7 +775,7 @@ RuntimeInitArgs null0_init_args() {
   RuntimeInitArgs init_args;
   memset(&init_args, 0, sizeof(RuntimeInitArgs));
 
-  static char global_heap_buf[512 * 1024];
+  static char global_heap_buf[8092 * 8];
   init_args.mem_alloc_type = Alloc_With_Pool;
   init_args.mem_alloc_option.pool.heap_buf = global_heap_buf;
   init_args.mem_alloc_option.pool.heap_size = sizeof(global_heap_buf);