Array Capacity Field

[Pontus Pihlgren]

> This is somewhat of a different issue.  The Phobos GC never returns any 
> memory to the OS.  

This is my absolute favourite pet peeve with Perl, it has the same 
behaviour.

I'm working on a fairly large program which is used on a cluster system 
with several instances going at the same time. It is initially uses 
quite a bit of memory (a few hundred megabytes) but then releases a 
large part of it and lingers in this state for quite some time (waiting 
for other processes), but from the systems point of view it never 
decreases in size.

I realize that the GC is trying to be nice to me and speed up new 
allocs, but I would like to force it to release memory to the system. Is 
this possible in Phobos or Tango, it really should be?

Pontus.