On Wednesday, 4 December 2013 at 17:46:40 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Even without vibe.d, dmd eats way too much memory to be usable
on a
machine with 512MB RAM. I was quite disappointed to discover
this when I
tried running dmd on a not-that-old machine with 512MB RAM (aka
my
office PC), and every time it would soak up all available RAM,
force my
browser (and probably significant parts of X11) to swap out,
making the
PC generally unresponsive for several seconds, before the dmd
process
exits and everything goes back to normal.
Heh, that was reason why I was forced to reconsider from setting
up a CI suite on my 1Gb-worth VPS :) There are some live projects
that require 2.5-3 Gb for routine build.
