"w0rp" wrote in message news:leajtjgremulowqox...@forum.dlang.org...
I sometimes think DMD's memory should be... garbage collected. I used the
forbidden phrase!
Seriously though, allocating a bunch of memory until you hit some maximum
threshold, possibly configured, and freeing unreferenced memory at that
point, pausing compilation while that happens? This is GC. I wonder if
someone enterprising enough would be willing to try it out with DDMD by
swapping malloc calls with calls to D's GC or something.
I've used D's GC with DDMD. It works*, but you're trading better memory
usage for worse allocation speed. It's quite possible we could add a switch
to ddmd to enable the GC.
* Well actually it currently segfaults, but not because of anything
fundamentally wrong with the approach.
After switching to DDMD we will have a HUGE number of options readily
available for reducing memory usage, such as using allocation-free range
code and enabling the GC.
