Re: [Sbcl-devel] GSoC mentorship

[Nikodemus S. <nik...@ra...>]

On 13 April 2013 09:52, Vsevolod Dyomkin <vse...@gm...> wrote:

I apologize for being a Negative Nelson here...

> I'd like to participate in GSoC as a mentor. The projects I'm particularly
> interested in are:

I'm not directly involved in our GSoC, so take this with a ton of salt
... but I do believe mentors should be SBCL hackers -- enough so to be
able to advice the students on technical issues specific to the
project at the very least. (I don't know what the actual rule is,
that's just what I would consider a reasonable minimum.)

> I would slightly rephrase the name of the goal as:

I would not start repainting that bikeshed now, especially since a
fast mode is a pre-requiresite for tuning.

> - Implementing coroutine support - some brief remarks may be found here:
> http://orthecreedence.github.io/cl-async/2012/11/07/missing-coroutines-in-common-lisp.html.

Unless someone has a much clearer plan of attack than I do (see
http://random-state.net/log/2012-10-06-userspace-threads-for-sbcl----a-short-discussion.html)
on getting this up and running, or unless there is a student with a
very strong pre-existing working knowledge of the domain, then adding
coroutines is IMO way out of scope for a GSoC project.

A broken prototype or a proof of concept I could see happening, but
unless someone has time to finish that... there's little point IMO.

Cheers,

 -- Nikodemus