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		hajile on Oct 21, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: HolyJit: A New Hope Those ISAs are much lower-level than wasm. If you want to keep things secure, you have to restrict things. For example, wasm is going to optimize a lot of things and isn't necessarily going to treat your pointers the way you expect. Good garbage collectors need pretty fine-grained control. LLVM has been the bane of GC creators for the same kinds of reasons.

pjmlp on Oct 21, 2017 [–]

Only from those that want to rely on LLVM for their compiler backends.

Using LLVM to target WebAssembly is not a requirement.

Also the point isn't implementing the best GC algorithm, rather a good enough one.

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