GSOC Proposal

[Nathan Sidwell]

On 4/1/19 1:24 AM, Eric Gallager wrote:
> On 3/29/19, nick <xerofoify@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Seems your right touching the complete garbage collector is too much. I'm
>> just looking at the users of the garbage collector and it seems one of the
>> major ones is pre compiled headers.
>>
> 
> The thing about pre-compiled headers is that I seem to remember some
> GCC devs saying they wanted to rip out pre-compiled headers completely
> once the C++ modules branch is merged, so I'm not sure if it's worth
> putting that much work into something that might be removed soon,
> anyways... I'm pretty sure Nathan Sidwell is the main person working
> on the C++ modules branch, so I'm cc-ing him.

The use of the GC machinery for PCH is needed by the front ends and is 
orthogonal to that for GC during code generation.

nathan

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Nathan Sidwell