Once in a while, you got to stop complaining and say thank you.

Dicebot via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Sep 19 04:18:26 PDT 2014


On Friday, 19 September 2014 at 04:35:55 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> Not so long ago, SDC used to require more than 2.5Gb of RAM and 
> minutes to compile, and it wasn't possible to compile it as 
> separate modules due to various bugs in the frontend.
>
> Now it is not only possible to compile it as separates modules, 
> but I was able recently to reenable the compilation of all libd 
> at once, as it is no much faster.
>
> I can now compile SDC on my machine in 10s to 11s, linking 
> included, and less than 500Mb of RAM.
>
> That is a huge step forward to me, and probably to some other D 
> users.
>
> SO, once in a while, you got to stop complaining, and say a big 
> thank you to all of you here that contribute to DMD.

All praise SDC! :)

Btw was there any specific  commit / release that reduced memory 
concumption or it was a gradual improvement?


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