Antti-Ville Tuuainen Passes GSoC Final Evaluation

[Chad J]

On 08/22/2012 05:41 PM, dsimcha wrote:
> 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.

Poolwise bitmap... what an interesting name.  I'll look forward to 
learning about the concepts behind it!