GSOC Summer 2015 - Second call for Proposals

Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Nov 22 20:17:39 PST 2014


On Saturday, 22 November 2014 at 16:38:43 UTC, safety0ff wrote:
> On Wednesday, 5 November 2014 at 03:54:23 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh 
> wrote:
>> This is my second Call for Proposals for the 2015 Google 
>> Summer of Code. Anyone interested in mentoring, or who has 
>> good idea's for a project for 2015 please post here.
>
> I think it'd be awesome to have something like 
> boost::intrusive[1] in D.
> For a GSOC project, the scope could be reduced to a few of the 
> containers from the boost version (focus should be to lay 
> groundwork for future additions.)
>
> The advantage of intrusive containers which I believe would 
> have the most mass appeal is that memory management is external 
> to the container instead of baked in.
>
> Further more, intrusive containers can be combined and extended 
> in interesting ways (I've found this extremely useful,) which 
> are impossible with non-intrusive containers. I've chosen to 
> use C++ over D for some of my programs due to this library 
> alone.
>
> [1] http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_57_0/doc/html/intrusive.html

Are interested in mentoring such a project?


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