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Apps already depend on the specifics of individual GC implementations. At least, that’s my experience working with real-time apps.


How are you possibly writing any kind of real-time app in JavaScript with a GC?


Real-time and general purpose GCs does not sound like a good idea, except for very specialized GCs...


Talking about soft real-time here… do you think multimedia apps should be native-only? That it’s a bad idea to put multimedia apps on the web?


The web does not imply a GC.

Most multimedia in the web is hardware accelerated, SIMD accelerated via plugins or uses Wasm.

Any other way would be a huge waste on resources or simply impossible to do for high resolutions.


> That it’s a bad idea to put multimedia apps on the web?

Yes? Obviously? The only reason Flash ever worked for anything useful (-ish depending on your opinion of video games) was that it was in practice isolated from the rest of the web browser. Javascript... isn't.


Nor real-time and Javascript in a web app


You might be forgetting that multimedia apps are often soft real-time.




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