On Friday, 12 October 2018 at 13:25:33 UTC, Chris Katko wrote:
Like, insanely fat.

All I wanted was a simple regex. The second include a regex function, my program would no longer compile "out of memory for fork".

/usr/bin/time -v reports it went from 150MB of RAM for D, DAllegro, and Allegro5.

To over 650MB of RAM, and from 1.5 seconds to >5.5 seconds to compile. Now I have to close all my Chrome tabs just to compile.

Just for one line of regex. And I get it, it's the overhead of the library import, not the single line. But good gosh, more than 3X the RAM of the entire project for a single library import?

Something doesn't add up!

Hm... maybe, you run into this:
https://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]

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