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Re: Suggestion for improving C++ parser memory usage
Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com> writes:
| Mike Hearn wrote:
|
| > Nope, I'm just an observer. But I don't think memory usage reductions
| > should be discarded on the grounds that you need at least half a gig of
| > RAM to compile C++, that sounds crazy to my ears.
|
| Significant memory reductions are certainly of interest, but it seems
| very dubious that this particular suggestion would pay off, and it also
| seems that it would murkify the parser for no appreciable gain.
Are those based on actual patches for the C++ front-end and data
points posted to gcc-patches that I would have missed?
-- Gaby