Summer of Code project discussion

[Daniel Berlin]

> I wrote a lot of the current zone collector.  Before that, Daniel
> Berlin did a lot of work on it.  I really don't think I have time to
> mentor an SoC project (Daniel, do you, maybe?), 

I do, in fact, have time to mentor such a project, and would be happy to
mentor it if you submit it and it is accepted.

My thoughts are along the lines of Daniel's.  I originally believed that
the better data layout of lifetime and object specific pools would help,
but it only helps about 10% in the extreme.

GC work is most certainly helpful.  Exploring generational collection
(even if it turned out to be a complete wash) would be a great project
as well if you wanted to attempt that.

though trying boehm-gc is a good project too.