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Re: Reducing memory consumption
- To: aoliva at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Reducing memory consumption
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:21:40 -0700
- 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
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <or7leyso9r.fsf@garnize.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>you write:
> 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.
I probably will the next time I try to bootstrap the m68k -- probably
as soon as the rest of the targets settle down.
jeff