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Minimum viable virtual methods #459

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My understanding is that it's possible to implement virtual methods in AssemblyScript before GC/reftypes land in WASM:

  • Make compiler emit vtables for classes not marked as @unmanaged
  • Make __memory_allocate take another optional parameter (vtable pointer). This can be stored before returned memory address, so that code expecting same object field offsets as now doesn't break.
  • Use call_indirect for method calls (looking up function index in vtable)

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