Ref counting for CTFE?

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On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 20:44:43 UTC, Dicebot wrote:

> I'd love to see command-line flag that enables garbage 
> collection in compiler (disabled by default). It does not 
> matter how fast compiler is if it crashes on big project. And 
> difference between 10 seconds vs 30 seconds is not as important 
> as difference between 2 seconds vs 10 seconds anyway.

I'd like to provide another use case:

I use vibe.d to host my website in a DigitalOcean virtual machine 
with 512M RAM, which is the cheapest and most popular VPS 
sulotion out there. But I can't build my dub/vibe.d project on it 
because 512M RAM is far from enough for any CTFE related code to 
build. It crashes every time. My solution now is to use a 
VirtualBox ubuntu on my Mac/Win8 to build the project and rsync 
it on to DigitalOcean. Which is very slow turnaround.

I think to make D based web programming popular, we have to make 
it possible to run on most of the cloud PAAS platforms (see 
Python/GoogleAppEngine and Ruby/Heroku and all those PHP machines 
out there). 512M RAM is a crucial deadline for the compiler's 
memory usage if we really want that to happen.