Hi bearophile, bearophile wrote:
The Java VM has a limit of the amount of memory it allocates from the heap. So is it useful to add a way to specify a similar limit for D2 programs (especially ones made by safe module)? This limit can be given to the D GC heap (and maybe to the C heap too).
Can you please explain why you think this is useful?
This limit can just be a compile-time constant given to the compiler, this produces a binary that has a limit of 200 MB of heap: dmd -mlimit=200mb foo.d The situation gets less simple if you want to change such limit after the program is already compiled, I don't know of simple ways to do it. Maybe a second program can be used for that: gclimiter -mlimit=100mb foo.exe
Assuming the idea is useful, why would you have to be a compiler option rather than, say, a linker option? Regards, Justin
