D with minimal runtime

Dibyendu Majumdar d.majumdar at gmail.com
Mon Jun 15 09:28:59 UTC 2020


On Monday, 15 June 2020 at 08:54:45 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
> When writing compiler tools, a GC seems desirable as managing 
> memory for the data structures used by compilers is a pain. I 
> guess the better C option has no runtime, whereas normal D has 
> the runtime with GC. I was wondering whether the runtime can be 
> minimized to only support the GC. Or is that already the case, 
> i.e. the D runtime is already the minimum needed for GC?
>

Just to clarify the context - the compiler needs to be built as a 
library that can be used in any project.


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