• Ruby The Roobster (6/6) May 27 As of late, I have taken up an interest in learning about how the
• Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole (8/14) May 27 From a theory standpoint this book should give you a pretty good

Ruby The Roobster <michaeleverestc79 gmail.com> writes:

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.

"Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole" <richard cattermole.co.nz> writes:

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.