On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 1:04 AM, Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You may have seen this warning from the memory consumption tester: > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-regression/2008-05/msg00041.html > > ... related to the recent identifier GC patch. > > I looked into this a little. My theory is that this is an artifact of > how the tester collects its data. In particular I suspect the tester > was not including the identifier data in its memory stats -- but now, > because identifiers are allocated via the GC, they are included. > > If this theory is in error, let me know and I will investigate some > more. In this case, it would be helpful to have the script that > generates the report.
For big testcases I actually see a consistend reduction in peak overall memory usage (the number if you would look at 'top'). For small testcases I can see both ups and downs, probably because of changes in the number and points of GC collections (but I guess that is expected). Richard.
