Hi, On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 2:49 AM, Ben Kloosterman <[email protected]> wrote: > What sort of GC will you be building ?
I'm currently leaning towards building some kind of concurrent collector for MMTk (Jikes RVM). However, I am still open to other ideas, and since I believe BitC is a promising language I figured I'd ask the list whether any project in particular would be potentially helpful to the future development of BitC. Maybe I should add a little context: "Google Summer of Code" is a program in which students are paid to work on free software during the summer. Google selects mentoring organizations (see [1] for the list), to which students submit project proposals. The mentoring organizations then rank the submitted projects by order of preference and Google allocates a number of "slots" to each organization (about a thousand projects are financed overall each year). This year, Jikes RVM lists a number of GC-related projects on their "ideas page" [2]. Since MMTk collectors are already used in an LLVM context by VMKit, I thought it might be interesting. Also, LLVM mentions rewriting the IR type system [3] on their page [4]. (I'm thinking "unboxed tagged unions"). However students are allowed and encouraged to submit their own proposals --- any project worth a summer of work is possible. So basically, feel free to make a wish or two :-) (although of course I can promise nothing as to their realization...) [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/program/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2011 [2] http://jikesrvm.org/Google+Summer+of+Code+2011 [3] see http://nondot.org/sabre/LLVMNotes/, item #1 [4] http://llvm.org/OpenProjects.html -- Jérémie Koenig <[email protected]> http://jk.fr.eu.org/ _______________________________________________ bitc-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.coyotos.org/mailman/listinfo/bitc-dev
