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by davexunit 726 days ago
There are several problems with bringing your own GC. Some that come to mind:

* Significantly increased binary size

* No easy way to trace heap objects shared amongst many modules

* Efficient GC needs parallelism, currently limited in Wasm

For a more thorough explanation, see https://wingolog.org/archives/2023/03/20/a-world-to-win-weba...