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Re: [PATCH] Improve PR29433, don't duplicate identifier names in dwarf2out


Richard Guenther wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> 
>> Richard Guenther wrote:
>>> On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Mike Stump wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Nov 30, 2006, at 11:15 PM, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 17:18 +0100, Richard Guenther wrote:
>>>>>>>>> This patch changes dwarf2out.c to not duplicate the strings in
>>>>>>>>> identifier
>>>>> This patch is OK, thanks!
>>>> The dwarf2 changes I think are safe enough to consider for 4.2, Richard, if
>>>> you agree, I'd be nice to put them in 4.2 as well.
>>> I agree in principle - but this isn't a regression, so ...
>>>
>>> Mark, is this ok for 4.2 as well?
>> I think that to put this on 4.2, we need a little bit of rigor: measure
>> something and show that it uses some significant amount less memory.
>> We've historically put compile-time improvements on release branches if
>> they seemed safe, and this qualifies.  So, let's just prove it actually
>> does something useful, which we certainly expect, and then it's OK.
> 
> On the testcase from PR29433 we get a 1.4GB improvement in memory usage
> compiling with -O0 -g.

That's plenty of justification; go ahead.

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