Ephemeral garbage [Was: GCC 3.2.1 -> GCC 3.3 compile speed regression]

[Mark Mitchell]

--On Monday, February 03, 2003 12:37:59 PM -0800 Mike Stump 
<mstump@apple.com> wrote:

> I have a suggestion for this case.  ggc_free.  ggc_free would be
> documented as:
>
> ggc_free

Yeah, I've meant to implement this since forever.

(I've avoided doing it partly because I think a lot of the problem is
that we allocate too much memory.  If we didn't wastefully allocate
so much junk, we wouldn't have to worry so much about how quickly we
clean it up.)

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