Antti-Ville Tuuainen Passes GSoC Final Evaluation

[dsimcha]

On Wednesday, 22 August 2012 at 20:04:12 UTC, David Nadlinger 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 21 August 2012 at 13:15:49 UTC, dsimcha wrote:
>> Congratulations, Antti-Ville!  This project creates a better 
>> implementation of precise GC heap scanning than anything 
>> that's been created so far for D.  The goal is to eventually 
>> integrate it into standard D distributions.
>
> Great! I've been pretty much out of touch with the GSoC 
> projects this summers, as I had a rather intense exam session 
> at university – are there any progress reports/blog posts 
> with actual numbers in them?
>
> David

Unfortunately not yet.  Antti-ville ran into a lot if difficulty 
getting things to work and spent the first half of GSoC on an 
approach that turned out to be the wrong one in hindsight.  His 
project was originally supposed to be improving concurrency 
support in the GC, but when rtinfo was added to TypeInfo, precise 
heap scanning seemed like too good an opportunity to pass up.  To 
do this project he had to learn the D template system from 
scratch.  Therefore we didn't have the luxury of the luxury of 
doing extensive benchmarking and documentation.  I plan to work 
on that with him before he creates a pull request to integrate 
his new and improved GC upstream.