Disabling the Garbage Collector

[Jeroen Bollen]

On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 02:33:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Sunday, 2 March 2014 at 23:21:49 UTC, Jeroen Bollen wrote:
>> Is there maybe a way to disable the garbage collector from 
>> running unless you explicitly call it?
>
> That's really the default. The GC in D runs if and only if you 
> do a GC allocation and there isn't enough memory in its 
> existing pool. Then it tries to do a collection to make room 
> (and if that fails, it asks the operating system for more 
> memory to grow its arena, and if that fails, it throws 
> OutOfMemoryError).
>
> If you call GC.disable, it just sets a flag to skip the try 
> collection step.
>
>
> But, in any case, the GC doesn't sit around in the background 
> constantly running at random times. It only runs when you call 
> on it to allocate.

If I were to compile without linking to the garbage collector, 
what would and what wouldn't work in D?