Concern about dmd memory usage on win32

[deadalnix]

On Friday, 7 December 2012 at 22:30:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 12/7/12 1:43 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> The GC didn't break things per se. It was just made 
>> compilation much slower,
>> and Walter didn't have time to fix it at the time (as dmd was 
>> close to a
>> release), so it was disable. But someone needs to take the 
>> time to work on it
>> and make it efficient enough to use (possibly doing stuff like 
>> making it so that
>> it only kicks in at least a certain amount of memory is used 
>> to keep the
>> common case fast but make the memory-intensive cases work). 
>> And no one has
>> done that.
>
> I suggested this several times: work the GC so it only 
> intervenes if the consumed memory would otherwise be 
> prohibitively large. That way there's never a collection during 
> normal compilation.
>
> Andrei

Nobody told you that the GC was THAT SLOW that it as even slower 
than the swap ? You really know nothing about optimization, don't 
you ?