Why Chrome Enabled WebAssembly Garbage Collection (WasmGC) By Default

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By EditorDavidNov 12, 2023, 12:34 am606 ptsHotTop
In Chrome, JavaScript (and WebAssembly) code are both executed by Google's open source V8 engine — which already has garbage-collecting capabilities. "This means developers making use of, for example, PHP compiled to Wasm, end up shipping a garbage collector implementation of the ported language (PHP) to the…

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