GSOC Summer 2015 - Second call for Proposals

[Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 22 November 2014 at 09:05:26 UTC, Rainer Schuetze 
wrote:
>
>
> On 21.11.2014 05:38, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
>> Unsure of Status (2012)
>>
>> 1. Removing the global gc lock from common allocations in D. 
>> (2012)
>> Student: Antti-Ville Tuunainen Mentor: David Simcha
>> I haven't found much info on this one.  Can either David or 
>> Antti-Ville
>> comment on how this project went?
>>
>
> The project was redirected to implementing precise scanning for 
> the GC using RTInfo. That feature was brand new at the time, so 
> they had to fight an awful lot of bugs in dmd, though.
>
> My implementation of the precise GC was based on Antti-Ville's 
> work 
> (https://github.com/Tuna-Fish/druntime/tree/gc_poolwise_bitmap), 
> but not a lot of code has remained from the original source.

Thank you for the update, so it at least sounds like something of 
value came out of the project.  Likely good enough to say it was 
a success in that some meaningful work was done.