Implementation Details

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 28/05/2024 12:54 PM, Ruby The Roobster wrote:
> As of late, I have taken up an interest in learning about how the D 
> language is implemented at a compiler level, specifically the GC 
> implementation.  Unfortunately, the source code is poorly documented, 
> and is too large to simply read all of it in a reasonable amount of 
> time.  If anyone here can help me, or at least point me to relevant 
> resources, I would be very grateful.

 From a theory standpoint this book should give you a pretty good 
overview of how GC's work. It is the book I recommend for introduction 
to GC's.

https://www.amazon.com/Garbage-Collection-Handbook-International-Perspectives-dp-1032218037/dp/1032218037/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

But yes that GC is very hard to get into, and its been tacked on over 
the years which make it even harder to untangle. Plus there is a memory 
allocator in there too.