Question on function-at-a-time and GC

[Richard Henderson]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 01:13:46PM -0400, Richard Kenner wrote:
> Without doing *any* GC's?  Doesn't that end up requiring a *huge* amount 
> of memory?

Not as much as you'd expect.

This is basically the default with gcc 3.4 at -O2; -funit-at-a-time
defers compilation of all functions until the end.


r~