how to consume less memory

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Monday, July 09, 2012 19:46:53 maarten van damme wrote:
> I use a foreach with parallel where I download and process webpages.
> Needles to say, this can consume a lot of memory at peak times. I've
> noticed the D garbage collector doesn't return the memory when it
> isn't needed anymore. Is there any clever way to limit that usage?
> Currently it consumes 1 gig but I'm afraid it'll get even higher...

As I understand it, the GC _never_ returns memory to the OS once it has it. 
Certainly that used to be the case, so unless that's been changed, it's still 
the case.

- Jonathan M Davis