http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39326
--- Comment #25 from Steven Bosscher <steven at gcc dot gnu.org> 2013-03-07 00:08:26 UTC --- (In reply to comment #24) > (In reply to comment #22) > > 4.8.0 -O2 (terminated after 9 minutes waiting, LIM being the offender, I > > suspect domwalk ...) >2.5GB > > > > applying domwalk fix ... > > It is LIM, for sure. I've been watching in GDB for a while at some > back traces, and it's spent minutes already in this DOM walk: After this, it's spending even more time in refs_independent_p, doing bitmap tests (ah! a test case for my splay tree bitmaps!). Is the refs_independent_p relation symmetric? It certainly looks that way. If so, one way to halve the work done here is to build only half the "independence" graph. Currently it builds a full square: if (mem_refs_may_alias_p (ref1->mem, ref2->mem, &memory_accesses.ttae_cache)) { bitmap_set_bit (ref1->dep_ref, ref2->id); bitmap_set_bit (ref2->dep_ref, ref1->id); if (dump_file && (dump_flags & TDF_DETAILS)) fprintf (dump_file, "dependent.\n"); return false; } else { bitmap_set_bit (ref1->indep_ref, ref2->id); bitmap_set_bit (ref2->indep_ref, ref1->id); if (dump_file && (dump_flags & TDF_DETAILS)) fprintf (dump_file, "independent.\n"); return true; } It's hard to say how much memory is wasted here (obstack_memory_used is still broken and overflows), but it's probably x*100MB if not more.