Dries Buytaert

This isn't working with just any C or OS code. I'd assume that. It would take a modified or clean-slate runtime whose language can work with it. It might not tolerate virtualization, either. As I was heading for bed, I decided to at least Google to see if anyone did anything with FPGA's and GC's to not leave your head with nothing to think on tonight. ;) Here's what I found:

FPGA-aware garbage collection in Java (2005)
https://buytaert.net/files/fpl05-paper.pdf

(Modified Jikes VM to use FPGA coprocessor for collection. Result was good performance with around 2.32% overhead on memory-intensive benchmarks.)

Fine-Grained Parallel Compacting Garbage Collection through
Hardware-Supported Synchronization (2010)
http://www.ikr.uni-stuttgart.de/Content/Publications/Archive/Hv_GarbageCollection_40071.pdf

Stall-free, real-time collector for FPGA's (2012)
http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/files/us-bacon/Bacon12StallFree.pdf

(This is on one chip with tiny resources for GC around 1% and 4-17% overhead.)

Maybe I can get something better for you after some rest. Note that my comment to the other person has more details of where I was going with this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10150480

While this is mainly about technical issues, it does mention Acquia/Dries, so I'll give my 2 cents to that part:

There is a lot of FUD these days about Dries and Acquia's role in Drupal. Dries wrote some blogposts that try to answer the most common questions people have.

The criticism about the bug count explosion in Drupal has already been addresses with an "Issue queue thresholds for Drupal core":

http://buytaert.net/issue-queue-thresholds-for-drupal-core

The role of Acquia in all of this: "Does Acquia suck up all the Drupal talent?":

http://buytaert.net/does-acquia-suck-up-all-the-drupal-talent

"Why Acquia acquired Cyrve and GVS":

http://buytaert.net/why-acquia-acquired-cyrve-and-gvs

Full disclosure: I work for Acquia. Not directly on the Drupal codebase, but I have a tech position. They really are a good people with the best intensions for the community and Drupal. They try to give back by e.g. free trainings, sponsoring camps and hackathons, having "gardening days" where people work on anything (old modules, new modules, core bugs, ...) that they think is needs some work, free hosting for any Drupal community project/blog/website and many many things more.

I don't agree with the decision. But, he was not ejected for S&M hobbies. He was ejected because he was perceived to believe that women are subservient to men (evidently this was part of some of his online writing).

Here's a timeline of blog posts:

1. Larry's (the ejectee) initial blog post: https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/tmi-outing

2. Dries' (founder of Drupal) following blog post: http://buytaert.net/living-our-values

3. Statement from the Drupal Association's Exec Director: https://www.drupal.org/association/blog/a-statement-from-the-executive-director

4. Another blog post from Larry where he clears up misconceptions and answers questions: https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/tmi-part-2

More Info:

* Drupal community discussion on /r/Drupal: https://www.reddit.com/r/drupal/comments/60y9mq/larry_garfield_on_harassment_in_the_drupal_project/

* A great non-partial tldr; blogpost from Drupal developer Mike Ryan: http://virtuoso-performance.com/blog/mikeryan/thoughts-drupal-community

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Some references:
Dries Buytaert
Founder of Drupal CMS
http://buytaert.net/drupal-com

Brendan Eich
Creator of JavaScript, CEO of Mozilla
OpenDomain: http://www.ecmascript.org/

Jon Ferraiolo,
IBM W3C - the leader of the OpenAjax Alliance
http://www.openajax.org/OpenDomain.php

Peter S. Andre
Jabber protocol
http://xmpp.org/xsf/press/2005-12-30.shtml

Tim O'Reilly
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_inner_circles_of_10_geek_heroes_on_twitter.php
OpenDomain: http://Oscon.com

Others
http://nunit.com/blogs/?p=36
http://www.greylisting.org/about.shtml
http://archive.fosdem.org/2008/sponsors

The Techcrunch article has a broken link to Dries' blog post:
http://buytaert.net/living-our-values

The Techcrunch article focuses too much on BDSM in general. If I understand correctly, the problem here is on the specific aspect of viewing women as inferior and the fact that this contributor wields significant influence in a community where (like many free software communities) gender is a problem.

This isn't very different than being anti-gay and being the lead of a big free software project. Some people can pretend that their personal opinions have no impact on their work, but that's very rarely the case. If there was more diversity, this would probably be less of an issue.

Here is another large project (Drupal) that decided against React because of the PATENTS file:
http://buytaert.net/selecting-a-client-side-framework-for-drupal

"The Virtual DOM, among React's most compelling features, has also seen its core ideas filter into other framework projects. But more importantly, React is licensed with what I believe to be a potentially unacceptable patent clause, which states that an organization can no longer use React once it sues Facebook for any (unrelated) patent infringement. This has already generated some concerted pushback from both WordPress's Calypso and React contributors."