Good News: Almost all druntime supported on arsd webassembly

[Sebastiaan Koppe]

On Monday, 6 November 2023 at 00:47:43 UTC, Lingo Chen wrote:
> On Sunday, 5 November 2023 at 16:18:53 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe 
> wrote:
>> On Sunday, 5 November 2023 at 01:28:25 UTC, Lingo Chen wrote:
>>> https://v8.dev/blog/wasm-gc-porting
>>>
>>> wasmgc is shipping. any plan for porting?
>>
>> My understanding is that it requires emitting dedicated 
>> instructions for allocating such objects, as well as dedicated 
>> instructions for accessing them. Since LLVM doesn't support 
>> them, I am not sure what a possible path to support should 
>> look like, aside from writing a complete fresh backend.
>
> https://llvm.org/devmtg/2022-11/slides/TechTalk3-ClangClang-WebAssembly.pdf
>
> llvm ir seems to have support for the reftype(gc). so it a 
> compiler problem?

Unsure how it's progressed since but as can be seen on the last 
slide of that pdf, it's work in progress.