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On Tuesday, 22 September 2015 at 01:59:33 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
> So the better performance is not surprising. Aside from actual 
> changes to the GC in D2, ldc2 also replaces GC allocations with 
> stack allocations in some cases, reducing the amount of short 
> lived garbage, which is the way it's meant to be (tm) and the 
> larger address range of 64-bit makes false positives (i.e. ints 
> that look like pointers to GC memory) in the mark phase 
> unlikely.

I haven't tested against 64-bit DMD. Maybe it also exposes GC 
pauses reductions.