Speeding up GC

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jun  4, 2002, "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote:

> I think it is more worthwhile to clean up HOW we allocate
> objects, especially "throw away" objects such as temporary RTL.

So how about going back to using obstacks for allocation and grouping
of objects, and doing garbage collection on obstacks, instead of on
individual objects?

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