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[cp-patches] Re: RFC: Reduce number of split-for-gcj lists


From: Mark Wielaard
Subject: [cp-patches] Re: RFC: Reduce number of split-for-gcj lists
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 03:05:01 +0200

Hi Tom,

On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 18:48 -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Mark" == Mark Wielaard <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> Mark> It does mean a change in any of the deeply nested packages triggers
> Mark> re-compilation of a few more files in its 'parent-package'. But I feel
> Mark> the overall compile time reduction is worth it.
> 
> Does it noticeably impact memory use?  One reason we did the splitting
> this way rather than all-at-once was that some compilations used an
> excessive amount of memory.

Not noticeably on my machine (it does when I reduce it to just 2 levels,
then swing takes up a lot of memory - it does slashes compile time in
half again...). But my dev-machine has lots of memory. I can explicitly
try on one with much less memory later this week.

Cheers,

Mark
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