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I highly doubt it would ever bake in GC semantics. High-perf stuff like games are the biggest push for this kind of thing, where nobody wants a GC. One of the biggest advantages to asm.js right now is predictable performance because of no GC.

Most likely an API will be provided for interacting with a garbage collector, but it's completely optional.




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