AA Troubles

[dsimcha]

BTW, I've updated RandAA for 64-bits if you want to try it out.  The 
updates were rather trivial and I meant to do them a long time ago.

On 5/11/2011 1:49 PM, Jonathan Crapuchettes wrote:
> Wow! When is the next release planned? Is it worth my trying the beta?
>
> dsimcha wrote:
>> == Quote from Jonathan Crapuchettes (jcrapuchettes at gmail.com)'s article
>>> 1. I will give you implementation a try.
>>> 2. I have been compiling with 64-bit as I expect most of the programs
>>> I write
>>> require more than 4GB of memory.
>>> Thanks!
>>
>> Unfortunately RandAA doesn't work on 64-bit yet, though the reasons
>> are just some
>> minor details, not fundamental issues. I didn't bother supporting it
>> because last
>> time I did a major update the 64-bit backend wasn't ready yet and I
>> needed to find
>> good linear congruential parameters for 64-bit.
>>
>> You might also be pleasantly surprised when the new release (currently
>> in beta)
>> comes out. I've put a lot of optimization work into the garbage
>> collector and
>> depending on the allocation size, it's between 25% and 200x faster
>> than the 2.052
>> GC. (See
>> https://github.com/dsimcha/druntime/wiki/Druntime-GC-Optimization-Fork)