GPGPU work and Identifiers

[David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 19 June 2016 at 20:20:38 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
> Such a separate driver could then also be used as part of the 
> regular distribution to improve the performance on 
> memory-constrained all-at-once builds, by freeing all the 
> frontend/LLVM memory (i.e., terminating the process) before 
> invoking the linker, which can take a substantial amount of 
> memory for huge binaries too.

(This is not likely to be worth the trouble on Windows, where – 
partly depending on the user's configuration – process creation 
can take ages. — David)