Use Bohem's GC for compiler proper in 4.1?

[Robert Dewar]

Sam Lauber 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.
> 
> You don't know whay swapping is?  Shifting memory over from physical RAM 
> to the hard drive when not in use, and putting it back in RAM when in use. aby 

Er yes, do you not know what a gigabyte is? its a chunk of physical RAM that
avoids the need for such swapping :-) (I hardly ever see any significant swapping
on my notebook that has 2 gigs, so I can't get excited over the issue. I quite
understand that if I was struggling with a machine with only half a gig, especially
running XP, gcc would be causing considerable grief in some cases.

> [1] I don't know if any machines do, but last time I looked at `-1(%esp)', I 
> thought so.

All machines allow random access to the stack. I have no idea what you are
talking about here or what the relevance of -1(%esp) might be.