Concern about dmd memory usage on win32

deadalnix deadalnix at gmail.com
Fri Dec 7 12:21:17 PST 2012


On Friday, 7 December 2012 at 16:23:49 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> If you look in win32.mak, you'll see that the source files are 
> split into
> separate groups (STD_1_HEAVY, STD_2_HEAVY, STD_3, STD_4, etc.). 
> This is
> specifically to combat this problem. Every time that we reach 
> the point that
> the compilation starts running out of memory again, we add more 
> groups and/or
> rearrange them. It's suboptimal, but I don't know what else we 
> can do at this
> point given dmd's limitations on 32-bit Windows.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

I don't know? Maybe disabling the GC because it slowed down dmd 
wasn't a good idea after all.

Who care about a fast compiler is that one crashes ?

It does crash ! Yes but at least, it is fast !


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