Compile-time memory footprint of std.algorithm

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d]

On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 02:39:05 -0400, Walter Bright  
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> On 4/22/2014 11:33 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>> At a times I really don't know why can't we just drop in a Boehm GC  
>> (the stock
>> one, not homebrew stuff) and be done with it. Speed? There is no point  
>> in speed
>> if it leaks that much.
>
> I made a build of dmd with a collector in it. It destroyed the speed.  
> Took it out.

The time it takes to compile a program where the compiler consumes 2G of  
ram on a 2G machine is infinite ;)

There must be some compromise between slow-but-perfect memory management  
and invoking the OOM killer.

-Steve