https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=70768
--- Comment #2 from James Almer <jamrial at gmail dot com> --- (In reply to Markus Trippelsdorf from comment #1) > Well, you simply need more RAM to compile this testcase, because gcc-6 uses > slightly over 2GB peak, so your machine starts swapping. > On my machine (with 8GB RAM) gcc-6 is actually slightly faster. > > (For gcc-7 you need to configure it with --enable-checking=release to > compare timings.) Tried to assign more RAM to the vm and it indeed fixed the trashing and slowness with gcc-6 and newer. gcc-6/7 uses like 2.1GB of RAM to compile this file whereas gcc-5 uses only 1.6GB. Is this intended/expected, or can it be considered a memory hog?
