How do I get dmd's memory usage a few hundred MBs down?
I keep having to close everything in order not to get an out of memory error
while compiling (-w -full).
I'd like to get it from 700-800 to below 400 :)
Any way to inspect which part is the biggest drain?

Er, bit exaggerated..

450 to below 300 pls :)

On 24/01/11 22:14, %u wrote:
> How do I get dmd's memory usage a few hundred MBs down?
> I keep having to close everything in order not to get an out of memory error
> while compiling (-w -full).
> I'd like to get it from 700-800 to below 400 :)
> Any way to inspect which part is the biggest drain?

CTFE and templates will use up the most memory - particularly if you use a lot of strings, as the memory allocated is never freed. You can work around it be compiling files one at a time or a few at a time, so instead of:

$ dmd file1.d file2.d

Use:

$ dmd -c file1.d
$ dmd -c file2.d
$ dmd file1.o file2.o

Note if you're doing this you may like to look into the -op option to avoid object file conflicts which will lead to linker errors.

-- 
Robert
http://octarineparrot.com/

== Quote from Robert Clipsham (robert@octarineparrot.com)'s article
> CTFE and templates will use up the most memory - particularly if you use
> a lot of strings, as the memory allocated is never freed. You can work
> around it be compiling files one at a time or a few at a time, so
> instead of:
> $ dmd file1.d file2.d
> Use:
> $ dmd -c file1.d
> $ dmd -c file2.d
> $ dmd file1.o file2.o
> Note if you're doing this you may like to look into the -op option to
> avoid object file conflicts which will lead to linker errors.

Compiling main alone tops 400MB :D
dmd -c -w proj_1\main.d

The hassle is probably not worth the money for new memory.. if only I wasn't broke :D