[hackathon] My and Walter's ideas

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 26 April 2015 at 03:58:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 4/25/15 8:49 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> On Sunday, 26 April 2015 at 03:40:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
>> wrote:
>>> Since it's trivial to make D applications a lot faster by 
>>> avoiding big
>>> ticket allocations and leave only the peanuts for the heap, 
>>> there
>>> should be a simple tool to e.g. count how many objects of 
>>> each type
>>> were allocated at the end of a run. This is the kind of tool 
>>> that
>>> should be embarrassingly easy to turn on and use to draw great
>>> insights about the allocation behavior of any application.
>>
>> https://github.com/CyberShadow/Diamond
>>
>> Among other features:
>>
>>> can display "top allocators" - call stacks that allocated 
>>> most bytes
>
> (Enthusiasm rises)
>
>> Unfortunately still D1-only.
>
> (Enthusiasm decreases)

Maybe I should work on it for this hackathon. But I also have two 
other interesting D projects in the pipeline, much closer to 
being ready (or at least, announce-ready).