DMD compilation speed

[weaselcat via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 23:28:50 UTC, w0rp wrote:
> Seriously though, allocating a bunch of memory until you hit 
> some maximum threshold, possibly configured, and freeing 
> unreferenced memory at that point, pausing compilation while 
> that happens? This is GC. I wonder if someone enterprising 
> enough would be willing to try it out with DDMD by swapping 
> malloc calls with calls to D's GC or something.

has anyone tried using boehm with dmd? I'm pretty sure it has a 
way of being LD_PRELOADed to override malloc IIRC.