Use Bohem's GC for compiler proper in 4.1?

Andrew Haley aph@redhat.com
Fri Apr 1 11:43:00 GMT 2005


Sam Lauber writes:
 > I know that Bohem's GC is used in the Java runtime for GCC.
 > However, the compiler proper itself can _really_ cramp people's
 > avalible RAM (for those who don't belive me and have Windows w/
 > DJGPP, change all the memory controls from `auto' to the highest
 > value and just try to compile libiberty/regex.c), so my suggestion
 > is usage of Bohem's GC in the compiler proper itself.

Do you have any reason to believe that such a change would reduce
memory consumption?

Andrew.



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