Compile-time memory footprint of std.algorithm

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 22 April 2014 21:43, Peter Alexander via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 22 April 2014 at 18:09:12 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>>
>> Testing a 2.065 pre-release snapshot against GDC. I see that std.algorithm
>> now surpasses 2.1GBs of memory consumption when compiling unittests.  This
>> is bringing my laptop down to its knees for a painful 2/3 minutes.
>
>
> My (ancient) laptop only has 2GB of RAM :-)
>
> Has anyone looked into why it is using so much? Is it all the temporary
> allocations created by CTFE that are never cleaned up?

I blame Kenji and all the semanticTiargs and other template-related
copying and discarding of memory around the place. :o)