The "no gc" crowd

[Leandro Lucarella]

On Friday, 11 October 2013 at 17:58:07 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote:
> On Friday, 11 October 2013 at 09:56:10 UTC, Leandro Lucarella 
> wrote:
>>
>> This is not really what's stopping the porting, is a problem, 
>> but an independent one. My idea was to port the GC as it is in 
>> Tango, and then see how to overcome its limitations.
>
> I tried this a while back, but the GC in Druntime has changed a 
> bunch since it diverged from Tango, and some or all of those 
> changed need to be applied to your concurrent collector before 
> it can be used.  Like you, I ended up not having the time for 
> this.  I think you'd need to do a diff of the current GC code 
> vs. the code as it was originally checked into SVN on DSource.

My plan was actually to redo all the patches I did to Tango 
(which were A LOT) on druntime master, adapting them as I go (I 
even started doing that but got busy after just 2 or 3 :S). I 
hope I can resume the work soon!