[dmd-internals] Windows DMD development is now impossible

[Walter Bright]

On 6/9/2013 1:32 PM, Don Clugston wrote:
>
> Yeah. 4 orders of magnitude. Our codebase at sociomantic is a bit larger than 
> Phobos + druntime, but it compiles in just a few seconds.
> The problem is, that because of templates, the memory consumption isn't linear 
> with source size.
>
> dmd -unittest -o- std/algorithm
>
> instantiates 344150 templates. Yes 344K. More than a third of a million.

Wow! (How many of those are unique, rather than reusing an existing instantiation?)

> More than the number of lines of source in the module.
> And yet there are only 1305 asserts in that module -- the tests are not 
> particularly comprehensive.
>

-cov shows 96% coverage for std.algorithm