On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 02:39:05 -0400, Walter Bright
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 4/22/2014 11:33 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
At a times I really don't know why can't we just drop in a Boehm GC
(the stock
one, not homebrew stuff) and be done with it. Speed? There is no point
in speed
if it leaks that much.
I made a build of dmd with a collector in it. It destroyed the speed.
Took it out.
The time it takes to compile a program where the compiler consumes 2G of
ram on a 2G machine is infinite ;)
There must be some compromise between slow-but-perfect memory management
and invoking the OOM killer.
-Steve
