What makes WebAssembly fast?

Re:What makes WebAssembly fast? by matthewmacleod on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @06:43PM (#13759428)

Swift is garbage-collected – it might not have a tracing GC, but ARC is essentially compile-time GC – certainly, from the perspective of a developer, ARC is extrordinarily similar to a tracing GC (with some small caveats).

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Re:What makes WebAssembly fast? by int_19h on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @07:00PM (#13759546)

Reference-counted GC is trivially implemented on top of WebAssembly memory model.

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Re:What makes WebAssembly fast? by wyldfire on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @08:47PM (#13760216)

"compile-time GC" sounds like it would apply to C/C++'s automatic storage duration too.

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