On Tuesday, 5 September 2017 at 10:50:46 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky
wrote:
It's been tough time on D front for me, going down from about
~1 week of activity during July to ~2-3 days in August.
One thing I realised is that doing a new GC is going to be a
long battle.
Before I'm too deep down this rabbit hole I decided to first
address the long-standing backlog of issues of std.regex and
std.uni.
My burndown list for std.regex:
https://issues.dlang.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=VERIFIED&component=phobos&list_id=216638&product=D&query_format=advanced&resolution=---&short_desc=regex&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr
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I was working on std.regex a bit myself, so I created this bug
report to capture some of the findings/progress:
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17820
It seems like something you might be interested in, or might even
have a small chance of fixing in the course of other things.
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There are other regex improvements I might be interested in, but
I'm not sure I have time to make bug reports for them right now.
I might be convinced to fast track them if someone wants to make
legitimate effort towards fixing them, otherwise I'll eventually
get around to writing the reports and/or making PRs someday.
Examples:
-- Calls to malloc in the CTFE path cause some regexes to fail at
compile time. I suspect this happens due to the Captures (n >
smallString) condition when the number of possible captures is
greater than 3, but I haven't tested it (time consuming...).
-- I remember being unable to iterate over named captures. But
I'm not confident that I'm remembering this correctly, and I'm
not sure if it's still true.
-- The Captures struct does not specify what value is returned
for submatches that were in the branch of an alternation that
wasn't taken or in a repetition that matched 0 or more than 1
times.
-- The Captures struct does not seem to have a way to access all
of the strings matched by a submatch in repetition context, not
to mention nested repetition contexts.
I'm not sure how much those mentions help without proper bug
reports, but at least I got it off my chest (for the time being)
without having to spend my whole weekend writing bug reports ;)
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Dmitry, I appreciate your working towards making the regex module
easier to work on. Thanks.
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I'm curious what you're thinking about when you mention something
ambitious like writing a new GC :)
(like this https://imgur.com/cWa4evD)
I can't help but fantasize about cheap ways to get GC allocations
to parallelize well and not end up writing an entire generational
collector! But I doubt I'll ever have the opportunity to work on
such things. I hope your GC attempt works out!
