dmd 1.054 and 2.038 release

[Moritz Warning]

On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:22:58 +0100, grauzone wrote:

> bearophile wrote:
>> grauzone:
>>> But I have a problem: the compiler is either extremely slow for me, or
>>> is stuck in an endless loop. All it does is to slowly allocate memory.
>>> I aborted the compilation after ~ 20 minutes and 2 GB RAM allocation.
>>> This wasn't the case with dmd 1.053, where it only took 5-10 seconds
>>> to compile. Can anyone confirm this?
>> 
>> Show the code!
> 
> I was going to say "but it's hundreds of modules", but then I tried to
> compile some other big hog of code: Tango.
> 
> And I found compiling this file hangs:
> http://dsource.org/projects/tango/browser/trunk/tango/core/tools/
Demangler.d?rev=5248
> 
> The exact command line for this was:
> dmd -c -I../tango/core -I.. -I../tango/core/vendor -release
> -oftango-core-tools-Demangler-release.o ../tango/core/tools/Demangler.d
> 
> Again, could anyone confirm this?
> 
> Anyway, no time for this anymore, it's going to be 2010 soon here.
> 
>> Bye,
>> bearophile
Someone reported the regression already:

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3663