[GSoC] Precise GC

[Jeremy DeHaan via Digitalmars-d-announce]

Hi everyone,

I know I'm super late to the party for this, and sorry for that. 
While my work on the precise GC didn't go as planned, it is 
closer than it was to be getting merged.

My open PR for the actual inclusion of the precise GC is here:
https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/1603

Even though GSoC is over and it isn't quite ready to be merged, I 
will still continue working on it in the hopes it'll get in. I 
have about a month until school starts up again, and I'm going to 
try to get it merged before that point.

Through the work I did and the research of a couple of GC topics, 
I discovered that I really enjoyed working on the garbage 
collector and I plan on continuing that. I was recently accepted 
to the University of Washington's computer science program and I 
am currently working on getting some independent study classes 
set up for future GC work. Once I have some better programming 
chops I'm hoping to help take D's GC to new heights.

Thanks to Martin Nowak and Adam Wilson for being my mentors and 
for keeping me going, to Rainer Schuetze for doing a significant 
portion of code review, and to the D community for giving me the 
opportunity to do this work.

     Jeremy