Visual D 0.3.33 uses a server for parsing and semantic analysis

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On 20-Jun-12 02:41, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
> On 20-06-2012 00:20, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Visual D 0.3.33 has just been released. The biggest improvement is the
>> move of the parser and the semantic analysis into a local COM server
>> process, so that the IDE is no longer suffering from stalls caused by
>> garbage collections on more than small amounts of memory.
>
> Very nice!
>

Indeed, I've moved back to Visual once again :)
>>
>> Some other, not so spectacular changes include
>>
>> * debugger project settings now stored in solution options file, not in
>> project file
>
> I love you!!! You have no idea how annoying that could get sometimes...
>
>> * cv2pdb: new version 0.25 that supports VS2012
>> * cv2pdb: exposed command line options in the project options
>> * intellisense tool tip now shows enumerator value
>> * version highlighting now supports the "version(V):" syntax
>> * tweaked vsi2d to also convert the Windows 8 SDK and VS2012 SDK
>> * various improvements to parser and semantic analysis
>>
>> The full list of changes is at
>> http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/wiki/VersionHistory
>>
>> Visual D is a Visual Studio package providing both project management
>> and language services for the D programming language. It works with
>> Visual Studio 2005-11 as well as the free Visual Studio Shells.
>>
>> The Visual D installer can be downloaded from its website at
>> http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald
>>
>> The source code is now also available on github:
>> https://github.com/rainers/visuald
>>
>> Rainer
>
> Does this work with the VS 2012 RC?
>

Works here on VS 2012 RC win8.

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Dmitry Olshansky