On Saturday, 7 November 2015 at 13:25:41 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
What can we do when it eats up all 4 gigs? (Windows)
With any program, if you're hitting the limit of the 32-bit
address space (which is actually more like 3.6 GiB than 4),
then you really only have two options - use less memory or go
to 64-bit. In the case of dmd specifically, that means either
reducing how much memory dmd consumes (which would mean
improvements to the dmd codebase), have a 64-bit build of dmd
(I have no idea what's involved with that, though it sounds
like it's been done before), or you have to build your program
in separate pieces that each require a low enough amount of
memory when compiling that they don't run out of memory. Phobos
has been built in pieces for quite a while now specifically
because it requires too much memory to build it all at once
(std.algorithm alone requires a lot of memory thanks to all of
the template instantiations in its unit tests).
- Jonathan M Davis
With a codebase like phobos, compiling in several steps isn't a
bad solution. But I am building a parser using pegged, and
splitting up the grammar into different modules feels like a
no-no. It's an option though.
Right now I run compile with gdc in a virtual machine. Still eats
about 7 gigs.
The 64bit dmd would be nice. I waved the idea goodbye when I
couldn't find a download link. Maybe need to look into it.
