DMD compilation speed

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On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 05:21:13 +0000, deadalnix wrote:

> 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 think that DDMD can start with GC turned off, and automatically turn it 
on when RAM consumption goes over 1GB, for example. this way small-sized 
(and even middle-sized) projects without heavy CTFE will still enjoy 
"nofree is fast" strategy, and big projects will not eat the whole box' 
RAM.
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