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Re: Advice requested: how big can we be?

Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
 > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 04:30:20PM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
 > > The current libgcj build requires a process size > 256M bytes.
 > > 
 > > Is this unreasonable?  Should we be able to build on boxes with less
 > > swap than that?  Or shall we just say "512M swap or don't bother
 > > building libgcj" ?
 > 
 > Has anyone profiled this - is it all reasonably necessary or is some of
 > it e.g. LD being dumb?

It's all reasonably necessary.  We compile a ton of source files in
one go, which means that we only open each one once.  However, this
does of course mean that we keep a lot of trees in memory.  We might
be able to prune these trees, but it would not make a vast difference.

Andrew.
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