Faster compilation speed

[Nick Ing-Simmons]

Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> writes:
>
>We happen to know that GC as a whole is 10-13% of total compile time,
>even at -O0, and my expectation is that the RTL part of that is
>perhaps two-thirds, say 7%.  So the benefit you can get is 7% less any
>overhead in tracking the reference counts and freeing
>briefly-allocated RTL.  

That does not take into account the cache/tlb locality effects that 
Linus explained are caused by delayed reclaimation.

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Nick Ing-Simmons
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