On 05/06/2025 4:56 AM, AlbertG wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm Albert, a 2nd year CS student at Politehnica University of Bucharest and I am excited to introduce myself as one of this year's GSoC contributors.
> 
> The project I am working on[1], mentored by Teo Dutu, aims to finalize the templatization of runtime hooks he previously worked on.
> 
> So far, I have successfully templated some of the targeted hooks, namely [`_d_arraysetcapacity`](https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/21143), [`_d_arrayappendcTX`](https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/21205), [`_d_arrayshrinkfit`](https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/21373) and [`_d_dynamic_cast`](https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/21402). Currently I am working on the remaining casting hooks, with a PR open for [`_d_paint_cast`](https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/21427). At the same time, I am also trying to add benchmarks to evaluate the performance gains[2].
> 
> Throughout the GSoC period, I plan on posting weekly updates on my progress.
> 
> Looking forward to sharing more soon!
> 
> Thanks,
> Albert
> 
> [1] https://dlang.github.io/GSoC/gsoc-2025/template-hooks.html
> [2] https://github.com/teodutu/druntime-hooks-benchmarks/pull/1

Welcome and very nice work so far!