The previous versions calculated at init() prevented `interp` from running
in many cases, increasing compile times due to the increased need to revert
the partially interpreted results and also increasing binary runtime because
fewer optimizations had happened during interp.
This adds support for `-gc=boehm` on `-target=wasip1` and `-target=wasm`
(in a browser or NodeJS). Notably it does *not* add Boehm GC support for
`-target=wasip2`, since that target doesn't have a real libc.
This is not a scheduler in the runtime, instead every goroutine is
mapped to a single OS thread - meaning 1:1 scheduling.
While this may not perform well (or at all) for large numbers of
threads, it greatly simplifies many things in the runtime. For example,
blocking syscalls can be called directly instead of having to use epoll
or similar. Also, we don't need to do anything special to call C code -
the default stack is all we need.
This adds support for the well-known Boehm GC. It's significantly faster
than our own naive GC and could be used as an alternative on bigger
systems.
In the future, this GC might also be supported on WebAssembly with some
extra work. Right now it's Linux only (though Windows/MacOS shouldn't be
too difficult to add).
Damian Gryski
Ayke van Laethem