Sam Lauber writes: > I know that Bohem's GC is used in the Java runtime for GCC. > However, the compiler proper itself can _really_ cramp people's > avalible RAM (for those who don't belive me and have Windows w/ > DJGPP, change all the memory controls from `auto' to the highest > value and just try to compile libiberty/regex.c), so my suggestion > is usage of Bohem's GC in the compiler proper itself.
Do you have any reason to believe that such a change would reduce memory consumption?
I have reason to believe that it would increase performance on low memory systems/large translation units: it seems that current gcc gc performs a full memory scan on each collection, right? at least if gcc uses more memory than physically available it spends a _very_ long time swapping during collections.
boehm gc could help here since it is a generational collector.
-- Stefan Strasser
