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by flohofwoe 1036 days ago
Garbage collected languages have been running in WASM for a long time already, but they had to "bring their own garbage collector" to run in WASM, which increases the size of the WASM blob.

Garbage collection can now be delegated to the WASM runtime instead (e.g. see the short description here: https://chromestatus.com/feature/6062715726462976)