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From: Laurynas Biveinis <laurynas.biveinis@gmail.com>
To: Steven Bosscher <stevenb.gcc@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [gc-improv] Permanent vs function RTL obstack fix
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 18:27:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTimC9NWci-ZA+dVCu70wghVJKnKFeA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=FrbJbzkma-ySCbgGypM=wojJy4Q@mail.gmail.com>

2011/4/9 Steven Bosscher <stevenb.gcc@gmail.com>:
> 4. RTL per function. GCC expands one GIMPLE function at a time, and
> the idea is to initialize the RTL obstack once when expanding starts,
> let it grow until final, and blow it away after final. Unlike 20 years
> ago, this obstack is never rolled back during RTL passes. This relies
> on generating not too much garbage, but memory for per-function RTL
> should be dwarfed by per-translation unit GIMPLE anyway.

Well, I have plans to see if it is worthwhile for pass like combine to
rollback the function obstack to do away with scratch RTL. Of course
this depends, on how much memory can be saved by doing this - in
comparison to current GC.

-- 
Laurynas

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-10 18:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-07  6:17 Laurynas Biveinis
2011-04-07 21:33 ` Steven Bosscher
2011-04-08 13:22   ` Laurynas Biveinis
2011-04-08 14:36     ` Jeff Law
2011-04-08 14:39       ` Richard Guenther
2011-04-08 14:42         ` Jeff Law
2011-04-09 10:34       ` Steven Bosscher
2011-04-10 18:27         ` Laurynas Biveinis [this message]
2011-04-10 18:49           ` Basile Starynkevitch
2011-04-11 20:03           ` Jeff Law
2011-04-12  0:22             ` Mike Stump
2011-04-12  2:54               ` Jeff Law
2011-04-12  6:34                 ` Steven Bosscher
2011-04-12  7:01                   ` Jakub Jelinek
2011-04-12  8:45                     ` Steven Bosscher
2011-04-12 10:44                       ` Mike Stump
2011-04-12 10:49                         ` Steven Bosscher
2011-04-12 15:02                       ` Jeff Law
2011-04-12 11:56             ` Bernd Schmidt
2011-04-12 15:31               ` Jeff Law
2011-04-10 18:23       ` Laurynas Biveinis
2011-04-10 22:33         ` Steven Bosscher
2011-04-11 20:08         ` Jeff Law
2011-04-12 11:43           ` Laurynas Biveinis
2011-04-12 11:46             ` Laurynas Biveinis
2011-04-12 17:25               ` Mike Stump

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