DGC begins
by Leandro Lucarella on 2008- 08- 10 21:59 (updated on 2008- 08- 11 03:13)- with 2 comment(s)
Ok, here I am.
First of all, this is a blog. Second, this is a blog about my informatics engineering thesis, to finally finish my long long studies at FIUBA (Engineering Faculty of the Buenos Aires University, UBA): a wild try to improve the D Programming Language garbage collector.
But don't expect too much of this blog. It's just a public place where to write my mental notes (in my poor english), things I want to remember for some point in the future.
If you are still interested, here is my plan for the short term:
I'm reading (again) the bible of GC: Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management by Rafael Lins (whom I had the pleasure to meet in person) and Richard Jones. I'll try to evaluate the posibility of using each and every technique in that book in the D GC, leaving here all my conclusions about it. What I really want in this first (serious) pass is, at least, to discard the algorithms that are clearly not suitable for D.
Comment #1
by Leandro Lucarella on 2008-08-11 13:16It all depends on the tutor (at least at FI). I have a good one ;)
Comment #0
by Ary Borenszweig on 2008-08-11 11:26Cool!
How did you get to do a thesis about this in UBA? I thought the subjects are pretty much restricted there... I guess I was wrong. :-)
I wonder if they'd let me do an IDE for D as a thesis... ;-)