dsimcha Wrote: > == Quote from Rounin ([email protected])'s article > > Complicating the code by avoiding associative arrays isn't really an option, > > though, as the whole point of writing the program was comparing D to Python > > in > > terms of simplicity. > > How about using a library defined associative array? As I've mentioned > several > times here before, D's current builtin associative array implementation > interacts > horribly with the GC. This is true both in terms of speed and memory usage. > Neither D's GC nor its AA implementation is that bad per se, but the AA > implementation seems to expose all the weaknesses in the GC, such that the > result > when using large AAs is laughably bad. I think eventually we need to > completely > redesign and rewrite it, or at least put a sealed implementation in > std.container > that's more geared towards huge AAs.
The precise scanning patch would probably help tremendously here.
