http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53650
David Stone <david at doublewise dot net> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |david at doublewise dot net --- Comment #2 from David Stone <david at doublewise dot net> 2012-06-13 18:44:18 UTC --- Turns out that contrary to my previous report, optimizations don't actually solve the memory use problem, they just slow it down significantly. Several hours into compilation, memory use was at ~2 GiB and still growing (very slowly). It seems that maybe it uses just as much memory, it just takes much, much longer to get there.