On 1 June 2015 at 13:50, David Holland <dholland-t...@netbsd.org> wrote: > but ignoring that -- who (other than apparently the gcc development > team) is focusing on burning ram?
GNU, this is from the GNU coding standard; to me it explains some of the design choices I find in many GNU utilities: "For example, Unix utilities were generally optimized to minimize memory use; if you go for speed instead, your program will be very different. You could keep the entire input file in memory and scan it there instead of using stdio. Use a smarter algorithm discovered more recently than the Unix program. Eliminate use of temporary files. Do it in one pass instead of two (we did this in the assembler). "
