Andy Wingo 2/6/2026

ahead-of-time wasm gc in wastrel

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The article announces the addition of garbage collection support to the Wastrel ahead-of-time WebAssembly compiler. It provides a technical walkthrough, including building the compiler and running GC microbenchmarks (gcbench, quads), comparing its performance and memory usage favorably against the V8 JavaScript engine.

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