Compile-time memory footprint of std.algorithm

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 22 April 2014 19:09, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> 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.
>
> This is time that could be better spent if the unittests where simply broken
> down/split up.


The final nail in the coffin was when my laptop locked up building
phobos development using dmd.

Went out and bought an SSD disk and replaced my crippled HDD drive -
expecting no further problems in the near future...