Minimize GC memory footprint

[frame]

On Saturday, 6 February 2021 at 19:13:33 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Saturday, 6 February 2021 at 17:50:18 UTC, frame wrote:>
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>> But .length = 0 should.
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> What do you expect it to do in this case?

Don't know - some compiler optimization? :D


On Saturday, 6 February 2021 at 19:31:39 UTC, Siemargl wrote:

> 64bit heal a problem, but uses about 500Mb of RAM continuosly 
> for this simple example, so its only patching sinkin' ship :-(

Hmmm.. with -m64 it's reporting 80 MB used, 203 MB are really 
marked as private bytes. Constant. If I use GC.minimize() it goes 
up and down and sometimes consumes more than 203 MB. Best is 
100MB. But it doesn't leak endlessly like the 32bit variant.