Use Bohem's GC for compiler proper in 4.1?

[Mike Stump]

On Friday, April 1, 2005, at 08:48  AM, Stefan Strasser wrote:
>  if gcc uses more memory than physically available it spends a _very_ 
> long time swapping

Swapping, what's that?  Here's $20, go buy a gigabyte.

Now, having said that, we do believe that it would make for interesting 
research to try less memory intensive algorithms, or to rearrange code 
so that the working set is reduced to help boost cache hits.  Currently 
gcc takes a cache miss every 20 instructions, or some ungodly number, 
and that really saps performance.

This is, generally speaking, just lots of hard work.

Good luck, let us know how it turns out.