On Friday, 27 August 2021 at 22:45:15 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
I'm just worried about how the memory usage will grow with this, considering dmd never frees.
Still not sure if it *should* be used in same process, but DMD definitely has -lowmem switch for turning on GC, and for DMD as a library there is initDMD() and deinitializeDMD() pair.
Haven't tested it myself wrt. to memory usage, but it is used by DMD tests. Another concern would be code analysis time, even with skipping semantic passes every run is a new invocation - DMD simply wasn't designed to be a language server where it could just iteratively update compilation database.
IIRC VisualD with DMD frontend enabled has noticable long pauses on showing completion (from 100ms to few seconds on larger projects), which renders it unusable for me. Could be that same reason, no idea.
