D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

[Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 6 October 2014 at 16:51:07 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/985
>
> Here is initial port result available for early experiments. It 
> can be compiled with make -f posix.mak GC_TYPE=concurrent and 
> passes the test suite with only shared library tests disabled 
> (ef20b7a).
>
> There are still many issues to be aware of:
> 1) Documentation is largely missing. Working on it, reading 
> @leandro-lucarella-sociomantic old posts 
> (http://www.llucax.com.ar/blog/blog/tag/understanding%20the%20current%20gc) 
> may help in the meanwhile
> 2) Code style differs from Phobos standards. To be fixed soon.
> 3) Shared library support is completely missing. Proxy 
> infrastructure similar to one in existing gc needs to be added 
> and I don't know if actual implementation will work in such 
> environments or more changes will be needed.
> 4) Deadlock issue 
> (http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/ticket/2087) still 
> remains. It is not critical to our code because it almost never 
> uses threads so no big effort was put into it but this can be 
> huge problem for any other project.
>
> In general this is very far from something that can be merged 
> upstream straight away and replace default GC on linux. It can 
> be interesting for other projects with similar architecture and 
> requirements and probably helpful for anyone else working on 
> better D GC.
>
> And contributions are welcome via pull requests towards this PR 
> base branch 
> (https://github.com/mihails-strasuns-sociomantic/druntime-1/tree/sociomantic-cdgc-wip) 
> or as e-mail patches (public at dicebot.lv)

Can't really test this right now, just want to say that it's 
awesome that someone is working on this and I really hope this 
can (eventually) get merged.