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apparent memory increase
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: GCC List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 17:04:36 -0600
- Subject: apparent memory increase
- Reply-to: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
You may have seen this warning from the memory consumption tester:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-regression/2008-05/msg00041.html
... related to the recent identifier GC patch.
I looked into this a little. My theory is that this is an artifact of
how the tester collects its data. In particular I suspect the tester
was not including the identifier data in its memory stats -- but now,
because identifiers are allocated via the GC, they are included.
If this theory is in error, let me know and I will investigate some
more. In this case, it would be helpful to have the script that
generates the report.
Tom