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Re: Speeding up GC

From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem at redhat dot com>
Cc: espie at quatramaran dot ens dot fr, rth at redhat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: 04 Jun 2002 15:41:10 -0300
Subject: Re: Speeding up GC
Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
References: <j47klg8pfy.fsf@informatik.hu-berlin.de><20020603180553.A13829@redhat.com><200206040920.g549KZP26811@quatramaran.ens.fr><20020604.015524.58453064.davem@redhat.com>

On Jun  4, 2002, "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote:

> I think it is more worthwhile to clean up HOW we allocate
> objects, especially "throw away" objects such as temporary RTL.

So how about going back to using obstacks for allocation and grouping
of objects, and doing garbage collection on obstacks, instead of on
individual objects?

-- 
Alexandre Oliva   Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
Red Hat GCC Developer                  aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com}
CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp        oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
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