Re: Most performant way of converting int to string

[Andrew Chapman via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 22 December 2015 at 17:43:00 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
I wonder if the slowdown is caused by GC collection cycles 
(because calling to!string will allocate, and here you're 
making a very large number of small allocations, which is known 
to cause GC performance issues).

Try inserting this before the loop:

        import core.memory;
        GC.disable();

Does this make a difference in the running time?


T

Thanks!  Unfortunately that actually makes it run slightly slower 
:-)