Comment by TeMPOraL

> you'd figure that some hardware support for boxing/tagging/GC would be a standard feature by now, but nope. Instead, the best approach we have for secure and performant software with x86 is 1) write complicated system in tedious assembly++ 2) run under VM.

The funny thing is that it all once was a standard feature of hardware, back in the Lisp Machines days.