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azakai on May 26, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: LO – simple WASM native language

A big advantage of WasmGC is it would allow your binaries to be smaller, since you wouldn't need to bundle an allocator for heap::alloc and free. Kotlin and Java binaries can in some cases be be much smaller than C++ and Rust for that reason.

glebbash on May 26, 2024 [–]

Alright, will take a look at it sometime. But the more interesting proposal for me right now is the component model.

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