top time wasters in DMD, as reported by gprof

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 6/25/13 2:13 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On 25 June 2013 07:46, Marco Leise<Marco.Leise at gmx.de>  wrote:
>> Am Mon, 24 Jun 2013 21:01:36 +0200
>> schrieb Martin Nowak<code at dawg.eu>:
>>
>>> On 06/24/2013 08:43 PM, Martin Nowak wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I can try to install kernel debuginfo that 12% might contain some useful
>>>> information.
>>>
>>> http://codepad.org/gWrGvm40
>>
>> Interesting. So to troll a bit, do I see it right, that dmd is
>> mostly a Unicode conversion and memory allocation tool ?
>>
>
> The D front end does nothing *but* allocate memory... and sometimes
> from all this allocation (if your computer doesn't die) a compiled
> program is produced.

Then maybe it should use its own malloc that uses the bump-the-pointer 
approach from large chunks allocated with malloc.

Andrei