Suggestion for improving C++ parser memory usage

Mike Hearn mike@navi.cx
Thu Dec 30 13:03:00 GMT 2004


On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 20:47:44 -0500, Robert Dewar wrote:
> Possibly so, but what is the gain, a little bit of memory saved at
> compile time? Seems dubious ..

Not when you have "only" 256mb of RAM and compiling a large C++ file can
flush half your desktop out to swap. I'd love to see reductions in g++
memory usage :)



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