More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/6/14, 8:43 AM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 6 May 2014 22:17, Wyatt via Digitalmars-d
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 06:39:45 UTC, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> The Obj-C thing as an example. Granted, it's a huge feature and
>>> has extensive implications. The Authors have said themselves
>>> that they agree it's not 'ready' for inclusion... so, what? It
>>>
>>> sits and rots?  I think it needs an experimental place to live
>>> and have people make use of it for what it is.
>>
>>
>> This bit right here reminds me of something the Linux kernel has called
>> "staging" [1].  It's basically what you describe: a subtree within main
>> source tree for things to be publicly available while they finish baking,
>> with the understanding that you're going to continue working on it and
>> hopefully get it promoted to first-class citizen.
>>
>>
>>> I'm plenty vocal and active on things I do feel I know about,
>>> but they're often pretty radical, unpopular, and rarely come
>>> even close to turning into code. I'm pretty certain that nothing
>>> left on my short list that I personally *really* care about will
>>> ever get pulled, even if I did do the work.
>>
>>
>> I know I and several other people are still interested in std.simd... :(
>
> It hasn't gone away. It's a perfect example of where I got blocked by
> some things, and since it wasn't in an accessible location as an
> in-progress 'exp' module, it's barely used, and I've never gotten any
> feedback. Perhaps the blocks are lifted now (I haven't checked
> lately), but clearly I started working on other things and lost
> momentum, and I think it's safe to attribute this almost entirely to
> the fact it exists in my fork where nobody will find it, rather than
> 'exp', where people can still report usage experience, feedback, and
> keep me on track.

I can't seem to find simd on our dub site 
http://code.dlang.org/search?q=simd. Did you put it there under another 
name?

Andrei