From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" To: kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Faster compilation speed Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 15:04:00 -0000 Message-id: <20020821.144957.32868995.davem@redhat.com> References: <10208211358.AA03911@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> X-SW-Source: 2002-08/msg01274.html From: kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) Date: Wed, 21 Aug 02 09:58:57 EDT True if you only walk *one* SET, but normally you walk a whole bunch, each of which have MEM and REG objects. So I disagree this adds to the working set size. In the obstack days, it was not uncommon to walk several full consequetive INSNs (including traversing into their contents) and stay on the same system page. Today this never happens, it is in fact guarenteed NOT to happen.