On 11/11/2012 1:03 PM, David Held wrote:

So what do you think about adding some smart pointers to at least recover most of the memory?

I've thought about using smart pointers for the CTFE stuff. I think that would resolve it.

I'm a little concerned that using smart pointers in general would cause slowdowns.

Another refactoring I'd like to see happen in dmd is that some of its data structures become copy-on-write, as many, many problems have been caused by changing things that someone else assumed wouldn't be changed.