Modern C++ Lamentations

[Mengu]

On Sunday, 30 December 2018 at 15:10:17 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
wrote:
> On Sunday, 30 December 2018 at 13:46:46 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>
>> There's also dmd's ridiculous memory usage policy, which is 
>> supposed to help compile times when you have ridiculous 
>> amounts of free RAM, but which causes anything from swap 
>> thrashing slowdowns to outright unusability on medium- to 
>> low-memory systems.
>>
>
> Don't get me started :)
> My VPS host has 512 mb RAM, and it's stressful when a D 
> compiler can't build a few files. Upping this memory limit 
> costs significantly more money.

i was shocked when i encountered the exact same thing on an ec2 
micro instance. it was a bit upsetting and disappointing.