GSoC 2016 - Precise GC

[Jeremy DeHaan via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 3 May 2016 at 06:23:51 UTC, Yura Sokolov wrote:
> On Monday, 2 May 2016 at 15:29:15 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
>> Hi everyone!
>>
>> I'm a little late to the party as far as my announcement goes, 
>> but I have been busy reading code and doing research for my 
>> project.
>>
>> [...]
>
> Great! That is what should have been done long time ago.
>
> I'm pretty sure, if you implement just precise heap scan (and 
> lock removal), it will be already huge win.

I agree, but a precise heap scan should be the easiest part of 
this project. Rainer Schuetze has already implemented this and 
presented it at a dconf a few years ago(2013?). My plan is to use 
that since I know it works, and that frees up my time to focus on 
pretty much everything else.