Suggestion for improving C++ parser memory usage

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com> writes:

| Mike Hearn wrote:
| 
| > Nope, I'm just an observer. But I don't think memory usage reductions
| > should be discarded on the grounds that you need at least half a gig of
| > RAM to compile C++, that sounds crazy to my ears.
| 
| Significant memory reductions are certainly of interest, but it seems
| very dubious that this particular suggestion would pay off, and it also
| seems that it would murkify the parser for no appreciable gain.

Are those based on actual patches for the C++ front-end and data
points posted to gcc-patches that I would have missed?

-- Gaby