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Re: gcc 3.3 garbage collector defaults
- From: Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>
- To: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>, Andi Kleen <ak at suse dot de>, zack at codesourcery dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:08:45 -0500
- Subject: Re: gcc 3.3 garbage collector defaults
- References: <20030127130129.1c89cdf6.bkoz@redhat.com> <200301271904.OAA22788@makai.watson.ibm.com>
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:04:37PM -0500, David Edelsohn wrote:
> >>>>> Benjamin Kosnik writes:
>
> Ben> Aaaaaaaaaaghh!!!!!! Why aren't these flags documented!!!! Why aren't
> Ben> the defaults sane???
>
> The defaults are very sane for a 128MB 200MHz system :-).
Which just goes to show two things:
1) SOMEbody *cough*david*cough* needs to drop some cash on new hardware, and
2) the defaults should adjust themselves to the host's memory.
Phil
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