• AlbertG (25/25) Jun 04 Hi everyone,
• Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole (2/31) Jun 06 Welcome and very nice work so far!
• Matheus Catarino (2/6) Jun 06 Awesome! Nice work.

AlbertG <albert.guiman protonmail.com> writes:

Hi everyone,

I'm Albert, a 2nd year CS student at Politehnica University of 
Bucharest and I am excited to introduce myself as one of this 
year's GSoC contributors.

The project I am working on[1], mentored by Teo Dutu, aims to 
finalize the templatization of runtime hooks he previously worked 
on.

So far, I have successfully templated some of the targeted hooks, 
namely 
[`_d_arraysetcapacity`](https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/21143), 
[`_d_arrayappendcTX`](https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/21205), 
[`_d_arrayshrinkfit`](https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/21373) 
and [`_d_dynamic_cast`](https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/21402). 
Currently I am working on the remaining casting hooks, with a PR 
open for 
[`_d_paint_cast`](https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/21427). At 
the same time, I am also trying to add benchmarks to evaluate the 
performance gains[2].

Throughout the GSoC period, I plan on posting weekly updates on 
my progress.

Looking forward to sharing more soon!

Thanks,
Albert

[1] https://dlang.github.io/GSoC/gsoc-2025/template-hooks.html
[2] https://github.com/teodutu/druntime-hooks-benchmarks/pull/1

"Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole" <richard cattermole.co.nz> writes:

On 05/06/2025 4:56 AM, AlbertG wrote:
 Hi everyone,
 
 I'm Albert, a 2nd year CS student at Politehnica University of Bucharest 
 and I am excited to introduce myself as one of this year's GSoC 
 contributors.
 
 The project I am working on[1], mentored by Teo Dutu, aims to finalize 
 the templatization of runtime hooks he previously worked on.
 
 So far, I have successfully templated some of the targeted hooks, namely 
 [`_d_arraysetcapacity`](https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/21143), 
 [`_d_arrayappendcTX`](https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/21205), 
 [`_d_arrayshrinkfit`](https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/21373) and 
 [`_d_dynamic_cast`](https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/21402). Currently 
 I am working on the remaining casting hooks, with a PR open for 
 [`_d_paint_cast`](https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/21427). At the same 
 time, I am also trying to add benchmarks to evaluate the performance 
 gains[2].
 
 Throughout the GSoC period, I plan on posting weekly updates on my 
 progress.
 
 Looking forward to sharing more soon!
 
 Thanks,
 Albert
 
 [1] https://dlang.github.io/GSoC/gsoc-2025/template-hooks.html
 [2] https://github.com/teodutu/druntime-hooks-benchmarks/pull/1

Welcome and very nice work so far!

Matheus Catarino <matheus-catarino hotmail.com> writes:

On Wednesday, 4 June 2025 at 16:56:32 UTC, AlbertG wrote:
 Hi everyone,

 I'm Albert, a 2nd year CS student at Politehnica University of 
 Bucharest and I am excited to introduce myself as one of this 
 year's GSoC contributors.

Awesome! Nice work.