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Re: Advice requested: how big can we be?

From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
To: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:45:56 +0100
Subject: Re: Advice requested: how big can we be?
References: <16231.11404.551858.47556@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com><hon0d4u4c3.fsf@byrd.suse.de>

Andreas Jaeger writes:
 > Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:
 > 
 > > The current libgcj build requires a process size > 256M bytes.
 > 
 > In't this just one file?  Can we workaround in the file somehow?

No.

 > > 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" ?
 > 
 > Then let's add a configure check -

How?

 > but I would prefer if it uses less memory,

So would I, but it's a tradeoff.  Using a lot of memory reduces
compile time and potentially allows us to do global optimization.

Andrew.

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