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Re:A cartoon intro to WebAssembly by greenhouse_gas on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @06:05PM (#13759127)
Why can't Wasm compile the GC as simply another thread in the app?

Kind of like how it does on a regular compiler

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Re:A cartoon intro to WebAssembly by abecedarius on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @07:55PM (#13759924)
Yes, when you're compiling a particular language to wasm, you could include a GC in wasm code as part of that language's runtime system. But it wouldn't interoperate with the Javascript GC, or GCs for other wasm modules compiled from other toolchains.
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