fun project - improving calcHash

[deadalnix]

On Monday, 24 June 2013 at 14:36:03 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> qznc:
>
>> To make dmd 1% faster, calcHash must be reduced to 69% run 
>> time. Does not look possible.
>
> I think the main problem to solve is to reduce the amount of 
> memory used during the compilation.
>


Yes, my profiling show that were I spend the most time is 
swapping. This have the effect of making every single part of DMD 
slower, and have potential for a 10x speedup (easy !).