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Re:WAVM: standalone WebAssembly VM prototype by chrisseaton on Monday June 06, 2016 @12:30PM (#11848000)
> Why can't existing garbage collectors be compiled to WA?

Yes I think that's the idea.

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Re:WAVM: standalone WebAssembly VM prototype by sspiff on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @05:13AM (#11853276)
Exactly. From what I've seen of WebAsm, you can request pages of memory using grow_memory. Upon this, you could implement a memory pool system to handle malloc and free. Using this, it is trivial to port existing GC's.

I don't understand why people moan about GC in WebAsm. WebAsm is a compiler target for lower level languages, not the JVM.

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