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

Walter Bright walter at digitalmars.com
Sat Sep 24 20:00:03 PDT 2011



On 9/24/2011 6:11 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
> 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.
>

The gc is the one used for dmdscript. It was tuned for minimizing memory 
consumption.

One easy test to make is to compare:

1. no gc (the old way)
2. gc with collecting turned off

That'll tell us if setting the kick-in high will make up the difference.


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