How to contribute to GC?

[Kira Backes]

On Friday, 10 January 2014 at 08:04:49 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> Well you've contributed the inspirational part, per my last 
> post :o). In truth I'd be planning it for a while, but since 
> you just wrote this was a good time.
>
> Andrei

Great news! Then please tell me as soon as I can help with 
*anything* (be it test-driving your implementation, 
documentation, writing unit tests, fixing bugs, writing articles 
and maybe even implementing a part of it, and so on)

I’ve done some testing with the current GC and the current 
stop-the-world latency is acceptable until about 50,000 objects, 
but I’ll probably need a lot more than that for the MMORPG 
server. Right now I’m using the GC for everything, which is the 
right approach I think to not do premature optimizations ;-) When 
the project is about to go live (scheduled end of 2014) I hope 
the GC is improved enough so it can just stay like it is (and I’d 
gladly publish benchmark numbers and write articles about the 
improvements). Only as a last resort would I move resources to 
manual memory management. So I really hope we can improve this 
until the end of 2014 and as I said I’ll help with anything I can.


rgds, Kira Backes