Ideas for students' summer projects

[Mike Franklin]

On Tuesday, 22 May 2018 at 16:27:05 UTC, Eduard Staniloiu wrote:

> Let the brainstorming begin!

Try to replace some of the basic software building blocks 
(memcpy, memcmp, malloc, free, realloc) that are currently 
leveraged from the platform's C library with counterparts, and 
provide a D API that uses `T[]` instead of void* and provides 
some of D's compile-time guarantees like safety, purity, and 
nothrow.

Implementation would take into consideration a platform's unique 
features such a SIMD.

Determine if there are any special features of D that can 
actually improve the performance of the highly optimized C 
implementations, perhaps leveraging information known at 
compile-time.

The project would provide an exemplary illustration of D's 
capabilities with benchmarks comparing it with C, and hopefully 
demonstrate that we don't need to have artificial dependencies on 
libc anymore.

Mike