DMD compilation speed

[Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d]

"deadalnix"  wrote in message news:uwajsjgcjtzfeqtqoyjt at forum.dlang.org...

> On Tuesday, 31 March 2015 at 04:56:13 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> > I've used D's GC with DDMD.  It works*, but you're trading better memory 
> > usage for worse allocation speed.  It's quite possible we could add a 
> > switch to ddmd to enable the GC.
> >
>
> That is not accurate. For small programs, yes. For anything non trivial, 
> the amount of memory in the working is set become so big that I doubt 
> there is any advantage of doing so.

I don't see how it's inaccurate.  Many projects fit into the range where 
they do not exhaust physical memory, and the slower allocation speed can 
really hurt.

It's worth noting that 'small' doesn't mean low number of lines of code, but 
low number of instantiated templates and ctfe calls.