[dmd-internals] [D-Programming-Language/dmd] 2f7ce3: add gc for Windows dmd

Andrei Alexandrescu andrei at erdani.com
Sat Sep 24 18:11:40 PDT 2011


On 9/24/11 5:53 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> I've gotten similar results. It's worse than I'd thought it would be.
> The addition of the gc substantially slows things down. Granted, the gc
> could be tuned, but this is a very inauspicious start.
>
> Of course, the test suite is all small programs. How a large one behaved
> would be interesting.

I think the default settings of today's GCs are years-old, e.g. they 
kick in at only a couple of hundred megs. We should tune the GC to 
kick-in only at 2GB RAM RSS.

Andrei


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