Re:WAVM: standalone WebAssembly VM prototype
by ascheidecker on Monday June 06, 2016 @10:10AM
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(author of WAVM here)
WebAssembly definitely benefits from being able to avoid the JavaScript garbage collector.
I'm working on a garbage collected language that will use WebAssembly/WAVM as that backend. It's possible as-is, but may require some non-standard extensions to get good performance (e.g. to find GC roots on the stack). I'll certainly contribute anything I do there for standardization, but I suspect the WebAssembly committee will beat me to it.
WebAssembly definitely benefits from being able to avoid the JavaScript garbage collector.
I'm working on a garbage collected language that will use WebAssembly/WAVM as that backend. It's possible as-is, but may require some non-standard extensions to get good performance (e.g. to find GC roots on the stack). I'll certainly contribute anything I do there for standardization, but I suspect the WebAssembly committee will beat me to it.