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GC is almost certainly best handled in the RTS if you're going to expect to have one. In theory, Rust could pick MSIL as a new target and then they'd pay overhe
by tel 12y ago
GC is almost certainly best handled in the RTS if you're going to expect to have one. In theory, Rust could pick MSIL as a new target and then they'd pay overhead for a GC which is not useful at all.
Alternatively, due to the existence of the GC as a given in the CLR, it might be that manual memory isn't exposed (as well or as nicely) in the MSIL making the idea of targeting Rust to it kind of silly. I have no personal clue.
- ygra 12y agoSince you can compile C and C++ to the CLR you can completely circumvent the GC if you want/need to. Interoperability with other CLR languages might be a bit hard, then (which raises the question on why target the CLR at all).