Re: Independent Study at my university using D

2017-03-07 Thread Random D user via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 6 March 2017 at 02:25:41 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote: The precise GC is going to continue to hang until it can be tweaked to be as fast or faster than the conservative GC we have now. In which cases? Shouldn't this be pulled and put behind a switch? I thought D's GC was supposed to be

Re: Independent Study at my university using D

2017-03-06 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 3 March 2017 at 19:00:00 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote: Something pretty exciting happened yesterday: I registered for an independent study to build a basic garbage collector in D at my university. This is exciting for me because I really enjoyed the work I did during the last GSoC, so

Re: Independent Study at my university using D

2017-03-06 Thread bpr via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 6 March 2017 at 02:25:41 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote: Me working on it has effectively stalled because school takes up much of my time and I'm still pretty lacking in experience with garbage collection. That's pretty much why I'm doing the study. Best of luck to you with the study the

Re: Independent Study at my university using D

2017-03-05 Thread Jeremy DeHaan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 4 March 2017 at 16:59:05 UTC, bpr wrote: On Friday, 3 March 2017 at 19:00:00 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote: This is exciting for me because I really enjoyed the work I did during the last GSoC, so I'm hoping to learn more about garbage collection and contribute to D's garbage collector

Re: Independent Study at my university using D

2017-03-04 Thread bpr via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 3 March 2017 at 19:00:00 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote: This is exciting for me because I really enjoyed the work I did during the last GSoC, so I'm hoping to learn more about garbage collection and contribute to D's garbage collector more in the future. What's the status of that work w

Re: Independent Study at my university using D

2017-03-03 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 07:00:00PM +, Jeremy DeHaan via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > Something pretty exciting happened yesterday: I registered for an > independent study to build a basic garbage collector in D at my > university. > > This is exciting for me because I really enjoyed the wo