alt Hacker NewsThe "CPU" in every browser already has one. This lets garbage-collected languages use that one. That's an enormous savings in code size and development effort.
The "CPU" in every browser already has one. This lets garbage-collected languages use that one. That's an enormous savings in code size and development effort.
i don't see the reduced development effort, after all, unless the language is only running on webassembly i still need to implement my own GC for other CPUs.
so most GC-languages being ported to webassembly already have a GC, so what is the benefit of using a provided GC then?
on the other hand i see GC as a feature that could become part of any modern CPU. then the benefit would be large, as any language could use it and wouldn't have to implement their own at all anymore.