Garbage Collector

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/1/12 2:35 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 11/30/2012 10:54 PM, Maxim Fomin wrote:
>> On Friday, 30 November 2012 at 23:35:16 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>>> On 11/30/2012 03:21 PM, js.mdnq wrote:
>>> > Can we expect improvements of the GC at in time in the near
>>> > future(months, not years)?
>>>
>>> Yes. There is already a precise GC implementation for D, which should
>>> be available with dmd as early as 2.062.
>>>
>>> Ali
>>
>> Please elaborate about GC plans for 2.062. I saw thread related to GC
>> GSOC project and precise GC, however I do not remember about
>> announcements to pull it in master branch.
>
> I was relaying Dmitry Olshansky's optimism:
>
>
> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/k95mf2$1aar$1@digitalmars.com#post-k9autf:241jma:241:40digitalmars.com
>
>
> Quote: "I'd just throw in that we have a (almost) precise GC that is
> used by at least one large project (the VisualD apparently). Though
> there were some problems with it. Anyway I'd expect to see it in
> upstream by 2.062 at least.".
>
> Ali

Unfortunately Antti-Ville, the student who worked on the GSoC project, 
is not to be found. I pinged him to no avail. Hopefully nothing bad 
happened to him.

It would be great if someone else in the community took over his github 
work.


Andrei