Re: [cp-patches] Split gnu/javax/swing/text/html/parser/HTML_401F.java

[Audrius Meskauskas]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:27:07PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Andrew Haley wrote:
  
> >> I haven't studied how exactly is --enable-java-maintainer-mode
> >> compiling the classes; if I just gcj -C HTML_401F.java on
> >> Fedora 11 (GCC 4.4.0, ecj 3.4.2), the compile time with patched
> >> VTA is only 4:53 with 1.5GB top memory usage, if I patch HTML_401F.java
> >> with the following patch, it compiles within 0:55 and maxes at 250MB.
      
> 
> That's quite a nice improvement.  HTML_401F.java has been causing 
> troubles for many years, and splitting it really helps, for example
> building on (virtual) machines with not so much main memory or in
> limited settings where there is a process limit for 512MB.
> 
  
> > It's not an ABI change.  This patch is OK iff accompanied by a
> > comment in the code that explains the problem.
    
> 
> I believe the patch has not made it into GCC Subversion yet.  Are
> the two of you still planning to apply it?
  

See http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs?root=gcc&view=rev&rev=149148

        Jakub





Masters, where is the beginning of this discussion and where is the 
proposed patch? I have received four messages about HTML_401F that look 
completely in the middle of the context. While it is great when somebody 
continues your work, I think it would make no harm for me to look into 
the patch on the class I once wrote.

Audrius Meskauskas