Go vs. D [was Re: Rust vs Dlang]

[Paulo Pinto]

On Monday, 18 March 2013 at 09:18:38 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 22:13 +0100, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> Am 17.03.2013 20:28, schrieb 1100110:
> […]
>> > The day I can compile pypy without needing 8Gb of memory is 
>> > the day I'll
>> > consider it.
>> 
>> Uau, that much?!
>> 
>> I tend to use Python only for shell scripting type of tasks, 
>> so I wasn't aware that PyPy is so memory hungry.
>
> Using PyPy to execute Python scripts is not the problem, that 
> is fast
> and efficient. 1100110 stated that it took 8GB to compile the 
> PyPy
> system in his experience. Most people will never need to do 
> that.

Yeah, you are right. Compiling Firefox will even require more 
than that.