conservative garbage collector
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Engine
- Dominant language
- Macaulay2
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- 297
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Description
Bill Furnish was working on a conservative garbage collector for M2 when he died. It would be good to see whether the ideas in it are worth bringing to fruition. It would replace libgc and be better adapted to working threads.
See https://github.com/garyfurnish/cgc1
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the linked cgc1 project and how M2 currently uses libgc. Investigate whether its conservative collection approach is suitable for working threads and can replace libgc. Done would mean a validated plan or implementation for bringing the collector into M2.
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Assessment
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100