Re: Garbage Collectors

[IchorDev via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 19 July 2023 at 11:27:14 UTC, Richard (Rikki) 
Andrew Cattermole wrote:

druntime supports registering of GC's not compiled with 
druntime.

But because some of the machinery isn't available to you, you 
would have to recreate it.

Oh right, so it's more of a matter of making GC-related code part 
of the GC implementation so that it's more convenient for others 
to build their own GC on top of it.

So in practice you cannot find a GC on the dub-registry to try 
it out. Even if one were to exist, you would have to do a new 
build of druntime/phobos special which isn't the easiest thing 
to do.

Just to confirm: would none of this would require *me* 
recompiling DRuntime at all, or is it that DRuntime would have to 
be modified to the point where anyone else registering a unique 
GC from user code wouldn't have to recompile DRuntime?