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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ There are two main benefits WebAssembly provides: 2. By avoiding the simultaneous asm.js constraints of [AOT][]-[compilability][] and good performance even on engines without [specific asm.js optimizations][], a new standard makes it *much easier* to - add the [features :unicorn:][future features] required to reach native + add the [features :unicorn:][future general] required to reach native levels of performance. [experiments]: BinaryEncoding.md#why-a-binary-encoding-instead-of-a-text-only-representation @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ reusing a modular C++ library can be as simple as [using a module from JavaScrip Beyond the MVP, another [high-level goal](HighLevelGoals.md) is to improve support for languages other than C/C++. This includes [allowing WebAssembly code to allocate and access garbage-collected (JavaScript, DOM, Web API) objects -:unicorn:][future dom]. +:unicorn:][future garbage collection]. Even before GC support is added to WebAssembly, it is possible to compile a language's VM to WebAssembly (assuming it's written in portable C/C++) and this has already been demonstrated ([1](http://ruby.dj), [2](https://kripken.github.io/lua.vm.js/lua.vm.js.html), @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ together in a number of configurations: today) allowing developers to reuse popular WebAssembly libraries just like JavaScript libraries today. * When WebAssembly - [gains the ability to access garbage-collected objects :unicorn:][future dom], + [gains the ability to access garbage-collected objects :unicorn:][future garbage collection], those objects will be shared with JavaScript, and not live in a walled-off world of their own. @@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ accessible through regular JavaScript. However, if a wasm VM is provided as an access to [proprietary platform-specific APIs](Portability.md#api) of e.g. Android / iOS. -[future features]: FutureFeatures.md -[future dom]: FutureFeatures.md#gcdom-integration +[future general]: FutureFeatures.md +[future garbage collection]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/1079 [future floating point]: FutureFeatures.md#additional-floating-point-operators [future memory control]: FutureFeatures.md#finer-grained-control-over-memory |