More recent work on GC

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 14 January 2015 at 18:01:22 UTC, H. S. Teoh via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Recently in one of my projects I found that I can gain a huge
> performance improvement just by calling GC.disable() at the 
> beginning of
> the program and never calling GC.enable() again, but instead 
> manually
> calling GC.collect() at strategic points in the code. 
> Obviously, YMMV,
> but I managed to get a 40% performance improvement, which is 
> pretty big
> for such a relatively simple change.
>

Interesting that you need to disable to get the effect. That mean 
our heuristic for the GC collection to kick in sucks quite badly.