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Re:A New Bytecode Format for JavaScriptCore by bpye on Friday June 21, 2019 @03:45PM (#20245737)
Don't the existing plans to expose GC [1] and ECMAScript objects [2] to WebAssembly cover this?

[1] - https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposals/issues/16 [2] - https://github.com/WebAssembly/webidl-bindings/blob/master/p...

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Re:A New Bytecode Format for JavaScriptCore by skissane on Friday June 21, 2019 @08:48PM (#20247346)
I was thinking along the same lines as you, but kannanvijayan helpfully pointed out to me that it isn't that simple:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19966100

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Re:A New Bytecode Format for JavaScriptCore by singularity2001 on Friday June 21, 2019 @03:56PM (#20245824)
Possibly. I'm a bit discouraged that ref's are opaque and cannot be mapped to wasm memory but maybe I missed something.
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