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.
