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Re:What is WebAssembly? (2015) by munificent on Monday January 11, 2016 @01:22PM (#10882083)
The set of people who have enough expertise to innovate in GC above and beyond what current browser JS engines do would fit in one small conference room. And most of those folks already work on browser JS engines. :)
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Re:What is WebAssembly? (2015) by pcwalton on Monday January 11, 2016 @01:28PM (#10882140)
This is absolutely true, and I wish I could send this to everyone who claims "just use [deferred] reference counting instead of tracing GC" :)
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