VM? if you use your own allocator its pretty straightforward to run C code on a GC. there is of course Boehm, but its .. really slow and pretty fussy. since you

VM? if you use your own allocator its pretty straightforward to run C code on a GC. there is of course Boehm, but its .. really slow and pretty fussy. since you own the compiler in this case you can even support object relocation (compaction) which does really* help a lot in total performance as well as footprint.