About compiler memory consumption

[Puming]

On Wednesday, 4 December 2013 at 16:28:07 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> While in general one may expect CTFE/template memory 
> consumption to drop considerably, in vibe.d case it is unlikely 
> to make that much of an impact. vibe.d does really lot of 
> computations during compile-time, for example, all Diet 
> templates get loaded and processed during that phase. I can't 
> imagine optimizations that will make possible to fit 
> compilation of any vibe.d project of notable size in 512Mb 
> memory. To be honest, I'd hate to do any DMD + vibe.d 
> development on anything less than 4Gb of RAM.

Other than diet, is there many other CTFE/template heavy parts?

I hope there would be a non-CTFE version of diet template, 
similar to regex/CTRegex. If we use the non-CTFE version in dev 
mode, we would have a better memory & compile time turnaround in 
dev mode. And in the release mode the diet templates would be 
optimized with CTFE. Is that a viable approach?

>
> In that sense I think rsync'ing binary from development box is 
> most reasonable approach in the long term. There is already 
> working dynamic Phobos library for Linux, using it + stripping 
> the binaries shall reduce their sizes quite a lot. Officially 
> shared Phobos is still not very tested but I have not had any 
> issues with it so far.

Yes, after some trying and struggle, I came to the same 
conclusion. Will try the compression tools mentioned by Teoh :)

Thanks,

Puming.