2015-03-31 0:53 GMT+02:00 H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d < digitalmars-d@puremagic.com>:
> > Yeah, dmd memory consumption is way off the charts, because under the > pretext of compile speed it never frees allocated memory. Unfortunately, > the assumption that not managing memory == faster quickly becomes untrue > once dmd runs out of RAM and the OS starts thrashing. Compile times > quickly skyrocket exponentially as everything gets stuck on I/O. > > This is one of the big reasons I can't use D on my work PC, because it's > an older machine with limited RAM, and when DMD is running the whole box > slows down to an unusable crawl. > > This is not the first time this issue was brought up, but it seems > nobody in the compiler team cares enough to do anything about it. :-( > > > T > > -- > Lottery: tax on the stupid. -- Slashdotter > I can relate. DMD compilation speed was nothing but a myth to me until I migrated from 4GBs to 8 GBs. And everytime I compiled something, my computer froze for a few seconds (or a few minutes, depending of the project).
