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How does this framework handle Garbage Collection? (WebAssembly has GC support planned for the future but doesn't have it in place yet[0]) [0] https://github.c

• flukus 9y ago
  I'm guessing it will download a runtime that will include the garbage collector. Soon you can look forward to every page including a runtime, or maybe several depending on which advertising engines they're using.
  • yodon 9y ago
    The problem is there's been a ton of work on chained garbage collectors, and the frustrating and seemingly non-intuitive result that everyone eventually hits is that you have to collapse down to a single garbage collector to get garbage collection to work reliable. There are just too many edge cases when you have, say, a native browser garbage collector and a separate application garbage collector, with references held between them. That's why mainstream support for C# -> WebAssembly is on hold until WebAssembly exposes native garbage collection support.