[D-runtime] Porting CDGC to druntime

[Leandro Lucarella]

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:28:11PM +0200, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
> On 29.05.2013 18:20, 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).
> 
> Very much looking forward to this :-)
> 
> >
> >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?
> 
> IMO the files in that directory are mere tests for some
> functionality and don't really qualify as benchmarks. When I did
> tests some time ago I added a few more files to the directory:
> 
> - http://forum.dlang.org/thread/jc2cbj$1l90$1@digitalmars.com
> - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8782627/does-the-d-garbage-collector-work
> - testgc2.d and testgc3.d from the test-suite
> 
> My main benchmark for performance and correctness was the parser
> from Visual D though.

If you could keep an eye on my patches with that it will be extremely
appreciated, since our applications won't be migrated until this is
working, I don't have any real code to test the performance of my
changes.

-- 
Leandro Lucarella
Senior R&D Developer
Sociomantic Labs GmbH <http://www.sociomantic.com>