[dmd-internals] Memory Leak

[Brad Roberts]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Walter Bright wrote:

> On 11/13/2012 4:04 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> > So far, the only thing I've heard on the Linux side is strapping the Boehm
> > GC onto the frontend, IIRC the GC in DMD is for Windows only? 
> 
> It'll work with the others, too, I just didn't see the point unless it panned
> out for Windows.
> 
> You can try the Boehm one.

There was a question earlier in this thread (which I didn't save but meant 
to respond to) about the impact of the addition of the GC.  From what I 
remember, the full dmd/druntime/phobos build and test cycle doubled in 
duration.  No one, that I recall, spent any time trying to diagnose or 
improve it.  Since we were up against a release, the choice was made to 
pull it out until someone does have the time to actually work on it, not 
just toss in an experiment.