Escaping the Tyranny of the GC: std.rcstring, first blood

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/24/14, 4:29 AM, "Nordlöw" wrote:
> On Monday, 22 September 2014 at 23:09:28 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 9/22/14, 12:18 PM, "Nordlöw" wrote:
>>> On Monday, 15 September 2014 at 02:26:19 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/817283c163f5
>>>
>>> You implementation seems to hold water at least in my tests and save
>>> memory at
>>>
>>> https://github.com/nordlow/justd/blob/master/conceptnet5.d
>>
>> Awesome, thanks for doing this. How did you measure and what results
>> did you get? -- Andrei
>
> I just checked that I didn't get any segfaults :)
>
> Memory usage in my conceptnet5.d graph (around 1.2GB) didn't differ
> noticeable when using RCString compared to string in a network that
> allocates around 10 million RCStrings as keys in a hash-table. Average
> RCString length is about 14. Is that surprising?

Sounds about reasonable.

> I didn't test speed.

Thanks for this work! -- Andrei