On: Kernel-WASM: Sandboxed kernel mode WebAssembly runtime for Linux

[phoe-krk]

I meant that automatic garbage collection is not always the way to go for some people, especially in the days when JVM GCs were not as advanced as they are now.

[amelius → phoe-krk]

Ok. Yes, ideally you'd allow the user of your VM to implement their own GC. But to make this fast you typically need to support special memory barrier instructions, like a modern CPU does.

Anyway, the GC-included approach is of course the one taken by Javascript and JVM.

[phoe-krk → amelius]

I assume that's one of the parts of the work done at https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc - not happening any soon yet, but it'll eventually be done.

[pjmlp → phoe-krk]

I doubt it will ever be happening, everyone will keep shipping the runtimes on their WASM blobs and that will be it.

Instead of adopting PNaCL in 2011, here we are a decade later still trying to figure out how WASM will be able to support all computing models.