64bit DMD on Windows

Joakim dlang at joakim.fea.st
Sun Jul 1 04:54:04 UTC 2018


On Saturday, 30 June 2018 at 22:38:13 UTC, 0xEAB wrote:
> On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 23:57:51 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> This has been a showstopper for me on low-memory machines. If 
>> I hadn't been using a high-memory system when I first tried 
>> out D, I might have just walked away.
>
> Confirmed. On a Raspberry Pi D compilers are completely useless.
>
> For example, I can compile huge C projects like the PHP 
> interpreter without a problem (it's horribly slow, though of 
> course 😌), but I run out of memory with anything a bit bigger 
> written in D.
>
> Well, this applies to LDC, at least (I've got no plan if the 
> LLVM backend frees memory).

LDC uses the same GC-less D frontend as DMD, that's likely the 
issue, not the llvm backend.


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