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Re: Use Bohem's GC for compiler proper in 4.1?
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: "Sam Lauber" <sam124 at operamail dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 12:43:14 +0100
- Subject: Re: Use Bohem's GC for compiler proper in 4.1?
- References: <20050401114030.8EAC223CFE@ws5-3.us4.outblaze.com>
Sam Lauber writes:
> I know that Bohem's GC is used in the Java runtime for GCC.
> However, the compiler proper itself can _really_ cramp people's
> avalible RAM (for those who don't belive me and have Windows w/
> DJGPP, change all the memory controls from `auto' to the highest
> value and just try to compile libiberty/regex.c), so my suggestion
> is usage of Bohem's GC in the compiler proper itself.
Do you have any reason to believe that such a change would reduce
memory consumption?
Andrew.