Potential GSoC project - GC improvements

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On Wednesday, 9 March 2016 at 22:49:28 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I'm trying to think of good project ideas for this years GSoC, 
> and one in particular I thought would be a great was working on 
> and improving the GC. I'm not sure what the scope of this 
> project would be like, but at the moment I am thinking writing 
> a generational collector would be a good place to start.

http://www.infognition.com/blog/2014/the_real_problem_with_gc_in_d.html

Good luck with generational GC...

I think the best possible improvement for GC is making it 
lock-free. Currently, GC lock cause some serious performance 
penalties for multithreaded code when frequent allocations take 
place.