On Friday, April 1, 2005, at 08:48 AM, Stefan Strasser wrote:
if gcc uses more memory than physically available it spends a _very_ long time swapping
Swapping, what's that? Here's $20, go buy a gigabyte.
expect memory to become a problem again with the advent of multicore and people wanting to run more than one gcc at a time.
I do have swapping on a 1 GB machine with 2 CPUs(-> 2 GCCs)
but that wasn't my argument, swapping was just what made me assume that gcc gc does a full memory scan on each collection.
non-generational gc also performs bad without swapping on large heaps. but I understand the objection that you want to keep exact GC(although I'm not enough into gc to decide if it's worth it).
-- Stefan Strasser
