Release D 2.069.0

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On Tuesday, 8 December 2015 at 13:14:58 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote:
> On Tuesday, 8 December 2015 at 08:39:26 UTC, Jean-Yves 
> Vion-Dury wrote:
>> On Monday, 7 December 2015 at 17:32:05 UTC, Márcio Martins 
>> wrote:
>>> On Monday, 7 December 2015 at 17:06:48 UTC, Jean-Yves 
>>> Vion-Dury wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday, 4 November 2015 at 15:25:04 UTC, Márcio 
>>>> Martins wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> FYI, I just installed the 2.069 version, and now I'm unable 
>>>> to compile some modules, getting the same "Error: out of 
>>>> memory". I isolated a tiny one raising the issue, and its 
>>>> all about a moderately complex ctRegex expression (see 
>>>> below) that seems to brake the compiler. Other modules also 
>>>> raise the problem, but they are bigger in term of code lines.
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Windows?
>>
>> Yes indeed, Windows... is it a problem (the previous version 
>> was fine with my environment)?
>
> You will need to add the add the LARGEADDRESSAWARE flag to your 
> executable manually. It is supposed to be done automatically, 
> but it is not working currently, so you will have to do it 
> manually... It indeed stopped working since 2.069.0. 
> Unfortunately, it is a royal pain in the anus, because you need 
> to download the WDK. To save you some pain, if you have Windows 
> 10, it's WDK doesn't install property, so you best install WDK 
> 8.1 which works smooth. Perhaps there are some other tools that 
> do it, but I am always reluctant to download these sort of 
> stuff from untrusted sources.

That's fucking ridiculous.

I'm sorry, but strong word are warranted on that one. Memory 
consumption have been an issue for a while now. Never freeing and 
assuming everything will be already to win few ms out of a build 
is the most ridiculous choice dmd has done.

Especially on a 32bits build.

Will this problem be taken seriously at some point ?