[GSoC] Precise GC

[rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 02/09/2016 3:25 PM, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I know I'm super late to the party for this, and sorry for that. While
> my work on the precise GC didn't go as planned, it is closer than it was
> to be getting merged.
>
> My open PR for the actual inclusion of the precise GC is here:
> https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/1603
>
> Even though GSoC is over and it isn't quite ready to be merged, I will
> still continue working on it in the hopes it'll get in. I have about a
> month until school starts up again, and I'm going to try to get it
> merged before that point.
>
> Through the work I did and the research of a couple of GC topics, I
> discovered that I really enjoyed working on the garbage collector and I
> plan on continuing that. I was recently accepted to the University of
> Washington's computer science program and I am currently working on
> getting some independent study classes set up for future GC work. Once I
> have some better programming chops I'm hoping to help take D's GC to new
> heights.
>
> Thanks to Martin Nowak and Adam Wilson for being my mentors and for
> keeping me going, to Rainer Schuetze for doing a significant portion of
> code review, and to the D community for giving me the opportunity to do
> this work.
>
>     Jeremy

Awesome, please do keep going with it! It would be great over the next 
few years to get some research papers out of this.