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.
I believe it has. Andrew.
