[dmd-beta] dmd 1.071 and 2.056 beta

[Don Clugston]

On 23 October 2011 07:29, Don Clugston <dclugston at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 22 October 2011 23:56, Walter Bright <walter at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd1beta.zip
>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd2beta.zip
>
> There are still two open regressions relative to 2.055:
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6825 (which has a pull request)
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6753 (bisected, looks
> fairly simple)

The increase in compile time, on Windows at least, is also a serious
problem. Even "Hello World" takes about twice as long to compile,
presumably because of the new compiler memory management. This might
be tolerable if memory usage bugs like bug 1382 were fixed, but 1382
still fails. So it just seems to be a completely backwards step. So I
really think the new memory management should be disabled until the
effect of compilation is less drastic.