SAOC Experience Report: Porting a fork-based GC

[Francesco Mecca]

On Monday, 22 July 2019 at 20:57:19 UTC, Meta wrote:
> On Monday, 22 July 2019 at 14:03:15 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> > [...]
>
> A pull request to the D runtime was my final milestone. I was 
> ready at the beginning of February, but I started to 
> procrastinate. I’d had no previous communication with any of 
> the reviewers and I was timorous about engaging with them. I 
> spent a lot of time refactoring my code back and forth and 
> delaying my pull request. At a certain point, I even considered 
> abandoning the final milestone and providing the GC as a 
> library. In the meantime, Rainer Scheutze published a threaded 
> implementation of the mark phase that reduced the mark time in 
> the GC and I lost faith in my project.
>
> [...]

at the dconf I had the possibility to talk about this with many 
people and I think that so far we are witnessing major 
improvements regarding the GSOC students.