memory allocation in dmd

[monarch_dodra]

On Saturday, 22 June 2013 at 21:41:15 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Compiling std.algorithm for unittests consumes all the memory 
> on many machines. I've been looking into what is allocating all 
> that memory, and it isn't so easy without adding 
> instrumentation code anywhere.
>
> Anyone know of a convenient tool to do this on Linux?
>
> (valgrind just hangs, or at least I gave up on it after 6 hours)

Just wanted to add that with the latest release, I can't compile 
algorithm in unittest mode with -inline -O -release.

This is actually an important test to run, as algorithm has a 
tendency to create "unreachable statement" error due to better 
flow analysis.