Requesting for project ideas

deadalnix deadalnix at gmail.com
Thu Jan 3 14:59:42 PST 2013


On Thursday, 3 January 2013 at 18:54:32 UTC, thedeemon wrote:
> +1 to better GC as a project. An easier but still possibly 
> interesting goal would be changing current (or better Rainer's) 
> GC to use parallel marking and lazy sweeping, same things that 
> were done for Ruby interpreter recently. That should make GC 
> pauses much shorter and it doesn't require rewriting most of 
> the GC.

I think we'd better look for performance boost in concurrency 
than parallelism here. Both TL and immutable are very concurrent 
GC friendly.


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