On 4/23/2014 12:20 AM, Kagamin wrote:
On Wednesday, 23 April 2014 at 06:39:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I made a build of dmd with a collector in it. It destroyed the speed. Took it
out.
Is it because of garbage collections? Then allow people configure collection
threshold, say, collect garbage only when the heap is bigger than 16GB.
It's more than that. I invite you to read the article I wrote on DrDobbs a while
back about changes to the allocator to improve speed.
tl;dr: allocation is a critical speed issue with dmd. Using the bump-pointer
method is very fast, and it matters.
