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Re:TeaVM: Build Fast, Modern Web Apps in Java by tyingq on Sunday January 31, 2021 @08:40PM (#25984636)
They do have a GC on their roadmap, I assume to better support running languages that need a GC without having to pull their whole runtime into WASM. Isn't it fair to say WASM is somewhere in-between a CPU and a VM?
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Re:TeaVM: Build Fast, Modern Web Apps in Java by pjmlp on Monday February 01, 2021 @01:40AM (#25986229)
There are CPUs with hardware GC support, then tagged memory is coming back into fashion as means to tame C derived languages, and most Assembly languages are actually processed by tiny runtimes (microcode), as the pure hardware based gates is long gone in most high performance CPUs.

So between a CPU and VM depends pretty much on how one looks at it.

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