Does anyone use a custom GC?

H. S. Teoh hsteoh at qfbox.info
Fri Jun 21 22:04:48 UTC 2024


On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 02:59:43AM +0000, Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> As you may be aware, I'm working with Amaury (deadalnix) on creating a
> new GC for D (see our talks at the upcoming
> [dconf](https://dconf.org)).
> 
> In doing so, we have found that the abstractions in druntime don't
> cover the functionality we want to change. And so I am working on some
> very disruptive changes to the GC interface.
> 
> This will mean that anyone who is currently using a custom GC will
> have their code broken, and in general, they will have to implement
> some new features.
[...]

I haven't started working on it yet, but I do plan to write a
bare-minimum GC for WASM targets at some point in time.  I would welcome
any API changes that would make this process simpler. ;-)


T

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