Am Freitag, den 13.05.2011, 09:59 +0700 schrieb Eric Niebler: > On 5/13/2011 5:45 AM, Bart Janssens wrote: > > Hi guys,
[..] > > Is anyone aware of > > tweaks for GCC that reduce memory usage, but still produce useful > > debug info (just using -g now, no optimization)? > > I'll leave this for the gcc experts. > > > I've gotten to the point where a compile can use upwards of 1.5GB for > > a single test, resulting in much swapping, especially when compiling > > with make -j2 (which I try to remember not to do, now ;). > > Ouch. Do you have to use gcc? Perhaps clang might give you better results. > Maybe, but if you want to keep on using gcc, you can pass it some extra options that influence its internal memory manager (there is a garbage collector inside gcc...). These work for me: --param ggc-min-expand=30 --param ggc-min-heapsize=8192 in effect I think it is a space/speed tradeoff, though I haven't noticed any major slowdown. Best Daniel _______________________________________________ proto mailing list proto@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/proto