D with minimal runtime

Adam D. Ruppe destructionator at gmail.com
Wed Jun 17 02:47:50 UTC 2020


On Tuesday, 16 June 2020 at 01:12:10 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> How difficult would be to arrange things such that absolutely 
> nothing in the GC makes it in the final ninary if not used?

I don't know... I haven't looked at it all recently. I know the 
GC is used in part of the program initialization right now though 
(as are threads and other things) so that'd probably all have to 
change.

> My recollection is that we currently have a layering on top of 
> the GC that is based on a misunderstanding of how linkers work, 
> and also awkward and unnecessary.

the gc proxy thing is a mess yah.


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