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by dispose13432 3480 days ago
>Rust is primarily aimed toward real-time applications that can't tolerate garbage collection latency.

Why can't Firefox tolerate garbage collection latency?

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Rendering webpages is a very intense task. Many of the improvements Servo is working on are basically "how can we transpose AAA video game technologies and techniques into web page rendering." The problems are more similar than you'd imagine.