Richard Webb: > Parsing the file with DMD 2.057 takes ~25 seconds > > Parsing the file with DMD 2.058(Git) takes ~6.1 seconds > > Parsing the file with DMD 2.058, with the GC disabled during the > LoadFile call, takes ~2.2 seconds. > > > For comparison, MSXML6 takes 1.6 seconds to load the same file.
Not too much time ago Python devs have added an heuristic to the Python GC (that is a reference counter + cycle breaker), it "switches off" if it detects the program is allocating many items in a short time. Is it possible to add something similar to the D GC? Bye, bearophile
