On Sunday, 3 May 2015 at 21:11:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Just merged in is a new compiler switch that instruments
generated code to collect statistics on memory allocation usage
and generates a report upon program termination. (Much like how
-profile works.)
This was based on a prototype Andrei had written earlier.
Andrei and I suspect it can be of great use in figuring out why
a program may be excessively slow or consume excessive memory.
I encourage giving it a try on some non-trivial project, and
see if it gives useful information.
Nice! I bet this can be used to improve Phobos in tandem with
@nogc.
