>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Richard> For big testcases I actually see a consistend reduction in Richard> peak overall memory usage (the number if you would look at Richard> 'top'). For small testcases I can see both ups and downs, Richard> probably because of changes in the number and points of GC Richard> collections (but I guess that is expected). If you are looking with top, I suppose noise for smaller test cases could come from differences in the overhead imposed by the GC versus an obstack. Also the new scheme wastes some amount of memory per identifier -- on average, half the minimum allocation size. Tom
