Some questions on latest work

[Bienlein via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 3 May 2016 at 19:54:06 UTC, tsbockman wrote:
> On Friday, 29 April 2016 at 10:06:06 UTC, Bienlein wrote:
>> All right, thanks for the hint. Is there a timeline till when 
>> this DIP will be implemented?
>
> No; that particular solution might never be implemented at all. 
> Getting safe reference counting working well in D (*somehow*) 
> is a high priority, though.
>
> Andrei Alexandrescu is giving the opening keynote for DConf 
> 2016 tomorrow:
>     http://dconf.org/2016/schedule/
> From the abstract, it sounds like he will be discussing the 
> reference counting problem again.
>
>> Also it would be nice if the GC, that does not leak with 
>> 32-bit D, would be plugged into 32-bit D from the beginning.
>
> Jeremy DeHaan just started a Google Summer of Code project to 
> make D's GC precise - or at least much *more* precise than it 
> is now:
>     
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/dgvhslayxialmebvjuwr@forum.dlang.org
> If he is able to meet his proposed schedule, I expect there 
> will be a D release with a much less leaky GC in 6 months to a 
> year.

All right, that was constructive. Thanks.