GC vs. Manual Memory Management Real World Comparison

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 9/7/12 6:31 PM, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
> I did build druntime and phobos with -release -noboundscheck -inline -O
> for DMD.
> For MinGW GDC I just used whatever version of druntime and phobos came
> precompiled with it, so I can't tell you which flags have been used to
> compile that. But I can tell you that cygwin is not required to run or
> compile, so I think its not using any posix stuff.
>
>
> I'm going to upload a zip-package with the source for the GC version
> soon, but I have to deal with some licence stuff first.
>
> Kind Regards
> Benjamin Thaut

You mentioned some issues in Phobos with memory allocation, that you had 
to replace with your own code. It would be awesome if you could post 
more about that, and possibly post a few pull requests where directly 
applicable.

Thanks,

Andrei