On 14-Sep-2015 21:47, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Over in the d.learn forum, somebody posted a question about poor performance in a text-parsing program. After a bit of profiling I discovered that reducing GC collection frequency (i.e., GC.disable() then manually call GC.collect() at some interval) improved program performance by about 20%.
One thing that any remotely production-quality GC does is analyze the result of collection with respect to minimal headroom - X % (typically 30-50%). If we freed Y % of heap where Y < X, then the GC should extend the heap so that it get within X % mark of free space in the extended heap.
-- Dmitry Olshansky
