Why does D rely on a GC?

Dicebot via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Aug 20 06:52:53 PDT 2014


On Wednesday, 20 August 2014 at 13:43:19 UTC, Ary Borenszweig 
wrote:
> On 8/18/14, 9:05 PM, bearophile wrote:
>> Ary Borenszweig:
>>
>>> It's very smart, yes. But it takes half an hour to compile the
>>> compiler itself.
>>
>> I think this is mostly a back-end issue. How much time does it 
>> take to
>> compile ldc2? Can't they create a Rust with dmc back-end? :o)
>
> Not all hope is lost, though:
>
> https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/16624
>
> With such bugs, one can expect a lot of performance 
> improvements in the future :-)

btw it takes 6 minutes to build LDC package from scratch on my 
machine - that is including cloning git repos and packaging 
actual tarball.


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