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it's a virtual machine, but it needs to interop with the rest of the web. at some point this probably means support for garbage collected heaps, but it doesn't
by kevingadd 11y ago
it's a virtual machine, but it needs to interop with the rest of the web. at some point this probably means support for garbage collected heaps, but it doesn't mean it's a pervasively-GCd VM like Java. Think more like how WebKit, Gecko and Blink have lots of GC infrastructure in their native, un-GCd code.
- JoshTriplett 11y agoRight, it has to interoperate with DOM objects; however, those can be treated as "foreign" object handles owned by the browser and just referenced by WebAssembly. Those objects can't be directly in the WebAssembly "address space"; that would be unsafe. So since they have to be managed separately anyway, they can use whatever memory model the browser uses.