[D-runtime] Porting CDGC to druntime

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

This is great news!

Regarding refactoring - it would be great if it were a separate step, 
either before or after the material changes.

Andrei

On 5/29/13 12:20 PM, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Hello there! Apparently DConf had a good effect for sociomantic, as we
> are starting to analyze moving forward to D2. The first step would be to
> port CDGC to druntime (we will post some more details about this next
> week).
>
> I have a couple of questions before we start.
>
> 1) I saw there is a 'benchmark' directory in druntime now. Is that
>     maintained and meaningful. Should I use it?
> 2) Are there any tests focusing on the GC I can rely on?
> 3) Is each commit in druntime being tested by the autotester, or only
>     DMD is using the autotester for now?
> 4) I would like to do also some code reorganization and cleanup in the
>     GC to make it look more like CDGC[1]. Will you be opened to that or
>     should I only focus on the particular changes to make the GC
>     concurrent?
>
> Any other suggestions or rules on hacking druntime are appreciated,
> since last time I touched it was when the project was created :)
>
> Thanks!
>
> [1] http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/browser/trunk/tango/core/rt/gc/cdgc
>