Garbage Collectors

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 19/07/2023 9:02 PM, IchorDev wrote:
> On Wednesday, 19 July 2023 at 08:27:18 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew 
> Cattermole wrote:
>> Its not as simple as porting to the API unfortunately.
>>
>> We don't have barriers of any kind, so that removes most GC designs 
>> you would want to use today. We are very close to maxing out what we 
>> can do as a result.
>>
>> A whole pile of logic is hidden in rt, so you have no choice but to 
>> either do the work to fix that, or recompile druntime with your GC.
> 
> I'm mostly a frontend person, but is what would need doing there? Is 
> there any existing discussion about that?

Not really, last time I tried, I didn't document what was hidden.

Copying out the conservative GC, register it under a different name and 
getting that to compile and link without recompiling druntime would be a 
good place to begin without having to understand how GC's work.