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Re:Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, what JVM ... by asdkhadsj on Monday April 22, 2019 @08:20AM (#19718314)
I would hope it's opt in for those scenarios. If the host is too "tiny" to carry around GCs, then a whole host of languages are not viable anyway. Requiring a GC wouldn't do them any favors.
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Re:Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, what JVM ... by dmitriid on Monday April 22, 2019 @08:23AM (#19718328)
Hard to say without reading all the specs/proposals: https://webassembly.org/docs/future-features/

But yeah, even specification itself is WIP

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