fun project - improving calcHash

[monarch_dodra]

On Monday, 24 June 2013 at 15:29:55 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> 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 !).

That, and it means dmd has better chances of finishing its 
compile before crashing (*cough*algorithm.d -unittest*cough*)