Modern C++ Lamentations

H. S. Teoh hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Sun Dec 30 15:22:17 UTC 2018


On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 03:10:17PM +0000, Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Sunday, 30 December 2018 at 13:46:46 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > There's also dmd's ridiculous memory usage policy, which is supposed
> > to help compile times when you have ridiculous amounts of free RAM,
> > but which causes anything from swap thrashing slowdowns to outright
> > unusability on medium- to low-memory systems.
> > 
> 
> Don't get me started :)
> My VPS host has 512 mb RAM, and it's stressful when a D compiler can't
> build a few files. Upping this memory limit costs significantly more
> money.

Exactly the same problem I've been facing.

Not to mention some workstations at my day job that don't have the
luxury of having gobs of free RAM available.  Which is why I haven't
dared to mention D at work yet... it would become the laughing stock of
my coworkers if dmd were to die with an OOM error on the simplest of
programs.


T

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