Use Bohem's GC for compiler proper in 4.1?

[Russell Shaw]

Stefan Strasser wrote:
> Mike Stump schrieb:
> 
>> 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.
>>
> expect memory to become a problem again with the advent of multicore and 
> people wanting to run more than one gcc at a time.
> I do have swapping on a 1 GB machine with 2 CPUs(-> 2 GCCs)

Memory bloat is a problem for embedded systems. Attitudes about just "buy
another gigabyte" is why i use C for everything for speed, portability,
compactness, and conciseness of design.

> but that wasn't my argument, swapping was just what made me assume that 
> gcc gc does a full memory scan on each collection.
> non-generational gc also performs bad without swapping on large heaps. 
> but I understand the objection that you want to keep exact GC(although 
> I'm not enough into gc to decide if it's worth it).