On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com>wrote:
> On 7/25/2013 11:21 AM, bearophile wrote: > >> Andrei Alexandrescu: >> >> http://www.reddit.com/r/**programming/comments/1j1i30/** >>> increasing_the_d_compiler_**speed_by_over_75/<http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1j1i30/increasing_the_d_compiler_speed_by_over_75/> >>> >>> >> Where is the 75% value coming from? >> > > Not sure what you mean. Numbers at the end of the article. > > I am also confused by the numbers. What I see at the end of the article is "21.56 seconds, and the latest development version does it in 12.19", which is really a 43% improvement. (Which is really great too.) > > > Regarding the hashing, maybe a different hashing scheme, like Python dicts >> hashing could be better. >> > > It's not the hashing that's slow. It's the lookup that is. > > > > Regarding Don's problems with memory used by dmd, is it a good idea to >> add a >> compilation switch like "-cgc" that switches on a garbage collector for >> the >> compiler (disabled on default)? >> > > It might be. > >