Garbage Collectors

[IchorDev]

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?