DMD workforce contribution

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-11-07 10:51, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 11/7/2011 1:19 AM, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
>> I'm not quite familiar with DMD's internals, so the best answer would
>> be "whatever is more important to do".
>
> I take it you want to work on DMD itself, then!
>
> 1. Making shared libraries under Linux work would be a big improvement.
>
> 2. Another would be to investigate the Dwarf symbolic debug outfit and
> make dmd's output work well in gdb.
>
> 3. Run the dmd test suite under Linux with gcc's coverage analyzer
> turned on. Add test cases to cover dmd source code that is not tested.
>
> 4. There are many static analyzers on the market. Try compiling dmd with
> one or more of them, and propose fixes.
>
> 5. Go through the Bugzilla unresolved issues, pick what interests you,
> and propose patches to fix them.
>
> 6. Investigate popular benchmarks (such as the "shootout"). Compare the
> native code generated by dmd with that of C or C++, and identify
> inefficient code sequences.
>
> 7. Install NetBSD or OpenBSD, and port dmd to them.

8. Port dmd to ARM.

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/Jacob Carlborg