== Quote from Jordi (jo...@rovira.cat)'s article > On 08/11/2010 04:15 PM, Walter Bright wrote: > > > > This is probably the last FreeBSD 7 release for D1. The next will be for > > FreeBSD 8! > > > > http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html > > http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.063.zip > > > > http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html > > http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.048.zip > Hi, > Congratulations for this release! This time it really made a > difference when i switched from 2.0.46. The framerate of my app used to > degenerate with time very quickly and now it remains fast and stable! > Maybe some of the many fixes helped the garbage collector? > Congratulations again. > j.
Probably the GC.minimize() patch. Previously the GC would **never** give memory back to the OS. In addition to the obvious reason, this is bad because the GC is currently not well optimized and slows down a lot when the heap gets large, even if most of it doesn't contain pointers and isn't scanned.