On 2014-01-10 08:26, Kira Backes wrote:
Dear D users,
I think the GC is the one are that is holding D the most back, so I’d
like to help it. But I have no idea how. No, I’m not talking about the
technical stuff, rather about the organizational stuff and the
contribution workflow.
It seems like sociomantics wanted to port CDGC to D2 but I did not see
any work following that, they also wanted to refactor the existing GC
but I also don’t think much has been done there. Then there is also a
precise GC. It exists, but is anything planned for this to be included?
So, I’d really like to help with the GC but I have no idea how.
- There is no overview of what people are doing on the GC or their GC forks
As far as I know there are two efforts on improving the GC:
* Leandro Lucarella (sociomantics as you mentioned above) - Working on a
concurrent GC. http://dconf.org/2013/talks/lucarella.html
* Rainer Schütze - Working on a concurrent GC.
http://dconf.org/2013/talks/schuetze.html
- I have basically no idea what of the current work will be included
into Phobos, so I don’t what to base my contribution on
- I don’t know which ideas I could work on so that they eventually will
be included
- Finally, I don’t know what the core D team is already planning or what
their vision is, what they’re planning themselves, what they want to see
in D, what they will accept as contribution
As far as I know nothing is decided. We all just know we want a better
GC. I have not heard anything from the core D team. What's missing is
someone to finish the work and create a pull request.
Maybe we need a project page or a group or something for the GC? Where
we can collect all ideas, see who’s working on what, see what’s wanted
and so on.
That would probably be a good idea. Perhaps on the wiki
http://wiki.dlang.org/
--
/Jacob Carlborg
