• Jeremy DeHaan (12/12) Mar 03 2017 Something pretty exciting happened yesterday: I registered for an
• H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-announce (5/17) Mar 03 2017 Awesome!
• bpr (7/11) Mar 04 2017 What's the status of that work with respect to the D main line?
• Jeremy DeHaan (7/16) Mar 05 2017 The precise GC is going to continue to hang until it can be
• bpr (3/7) Mar 06 2017 Best of luck to you with the study then! You've chosen an
• Random D user (15/18) Mar 07 2017 In which cases?
• Craig Dillabaugh (3/15) Mar 06 2017 Congratulations, and good luck. Look forward to hearing how

Jeremy DeHaan <dehaan.jeremiah gmail.com> writes:

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 I'm hoping to learn more about garbage 
collection and contribute to D's garbage collector more in the 
future.

This is especially exciting for the D community because my 
professor wants me to give a presentation at the end, which will 
expose more professors and students to this language. I don't 
have many details about it, but I'm hoping to have it recorded so 
it can be posted.

"H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-announce" writes:

On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 07:00:00PM +0000, 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 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.
 
 This is especially exciting for the D community because my professor
 wants me to give a presentation at the end, which will expose more
 professors and students to this language. I don't have many details
 about it, but I'm hoping to have it recorded so it can be posted.

Awesome!


T

-- 
"I suspect the best way to deal with procrastination is to put off the
procrastination itself until later. I've been meaning to try this, but haven't
gotten around to it yet. " -- swr

bpr <brogoff gmail.com> writes:

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 with respect to the D main line? 
Last I checked there's this 
https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/1603 which is just hanging.

It would be great if D finally had a precise GC, though from 
https://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2017H1 it would seem that  nogc has 
higher priority.

Jeremy DeHaan <dehaan.jeremiah gmail.com> writes:

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 
 more in the future.

 What's the status of that work with respect to the D main line? 
 Last I checked there's this 
 https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/1603 which is just 
 hanging.


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.

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.

bpr <brogoff gmail.com> writes:

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 then! You've chosen an 
interesting and difficult topic.

Random D user <no email.com> writes:

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 pluggable.

This way people could actually try to use it easily and provide 
valuable real-world feedback and use cases. With some luck we 
could even get someone to contribute/improve the GC (at least for 
their use cases).

It doesn't have to be the default. It doesn't have to be perfect 
to be released as experimental.

I would probably try it if I could enable it with a simple 
compiler/application switch, but I'm not going to pull and build 
it from the source.

Sounds to me like current situation actively blocks people from 
contributing instead of encouraging them.

Craig Dillabaugh <craig.dillabaugh gmail.com> writes:

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 I'm hoping to learn more about garbage 
 collection and contribute to D's garbage collector more in the 
 future.

 This is especially exciting for the D community because my 
 professor wants me to give a presentation at the end, which 
 will expose more professors and students to this language. I 
 don't have many details about it, but I'm hoping to have it 
 recorded so it can be posted.

Congratulations, and good luck.  Look forward to hearing how 
things go.