dmd memory usage

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2019-11-18 01:20, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> I'm fighting some out of memory problems using DMD and some 
> super-template heavy code.
> 
> I have ideas on how to improve the situation, but it involves 
> redesigning a large portion of the design. I want to do it 
> incrementally, but I need to see things improving.
> 
> Is there a straightforward way to figure out how much memory the 
> compiler uses during compilation? I though maybe /usr/bin/time, but I 
> feel like I don't trust the output to be the true max resident size to 
> be what I'm looking for (or that it's 100% accurate). Is there a 
> sure-fire way to have DMD print it's footprint?

You can also try the memory profiler in Instruments (shipped with Xcode).

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/Jacob Carlborg