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Re: Reducing memory consumption
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Reducing memory consumption
- From: aoliva at cygnus dot com
- Date: 19 Mar 2000 17:22:56 -0300
- Cc: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat Company
- References: <26555.953492393@upchuck>
On Mar 19, 2000, Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com> wrote:
> we have to use valloc the amount of memory held by GC is actually 2X
> what it should be (go look at how valloc works when you ask for a
> page of memory :(.
Would you like to try that patch that moved the page allocation
mechanisms into libiberty? It was supposed to improve the use of
valloc too, and fallback to malloc if it can't be done.
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