memory allocation in dmd

[qznc]

On Sunday, 23 June 2013 at 09:37:26 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-06-22 23:41, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Compiling std.algorithm for unittests consumes all the memory 
>> on many
>> machines. I've been looking into what is allocating all that 
>> memory, and
>> it isn't so easy without adding instrumentation code anywhere.
>>
>> Anyone know of a convenient tool to do this on Linux?
>>
>> (valgrind just hangs, or at least I gave up on it after 6 
>> hours)
>
> There's a tool called dtrace on Mac OS X and *BSD which 
> possibly could be used for this. Don't know if there's a 
> corresponding tool for Linux. Hmm, seems to be available on 
> Oracle Linux.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTrace

That would be SystemTap on Linux. However, I wonder if it is the 
right tool for the job.