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For what language runtime are the calling conventions an issue? Even the most calling-convention dependent GC I can think of (GHC Haskell's) can handle standard
by johncolanduoni 9y ago
For what language runtime are the calling conventions an issue? Even the most calling-convention dependent GC I can think of (GHC Haskell's) can handle standard C ABIs and .NET is a good example of making this whole process relatively seamless. If you can export a C FFI with pinned pointers in both directions, I don't see how it's any harder than Rust or C.
The multiple GCs in a process issue is usually due to the collector not playing nice with signal/exception handler installation when using safepoints, which is purely an issue of lazy implementations. There's even ways to collect cross-heap cycles when working this multiple GCs (Xamarin on Android does this fairly well).