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Re: Faster compilation speed
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- To: davem at redhat dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 02 09:58:57 EDT
- Subject: Re: Faster compilation speed
This is the one of the huge (of many) problems with GC as it currently
is implemented. Different tree and RTL types land on different pages
so when you walk a "SET" for example, the MEM and REG objects
contained within will be on different pages and this costs a lot
especially on modern processors. Our page working set is huge as a
result of this.
True if you only walk *one* SET, but normally you walk a whole bunch,
each of which have MEM and REG objects. So I disagree this adds to
the working set size.