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Well sure, but a runtime isn't going to change all that much. It's exactly the kind of thing that caches well. I mean a re-usable garbage collector sounds alrig

Well sure, but a runtime isn't going to change all that much. It's exactly the kind of thing that caches well. I mean a re-usable garbage collector sounds alright, but I don't think it will be used that much. I mean, I presume that you could implement a garbage collector as a shared library, but nobody actually does that.

tyingq 10y ago
You have to come at it from the perspective of people that want languages like Perl or Python to run well in WASM. They are thinking of it being used the same way that javascript is today. If WASM has some of the features of a virtual machine (meaning the JVM type, not the hypervisor type), and direct DOM access, that would be possible. Downloading all of the runtime would put them at a disadvantage. Those things are on the WASM roadmap. So this isn't just me going off on a tangent. https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/GC.md https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/GC.md