> The reason for this is that some gcc optimizations stages takes
> exponentially more memory when compiling big functions.
> bison produces one big function for the grammar parsing and its
> this that takes a long time to compile; To compile sql_yacc.cc quickly
> on Intel, you nead at least 160M of free ram. On a PentiumII 400mz with 256M
> ram, it takes 11 seconds to compile sql_yacc.o. Having to use swap
> can easily make things 1000 times slower
>
Is amount of ram available (portably) to configure?
So configure could decide to use --low-memory by itself? Allowing
overrides, naturally.
Leif
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