Failure to build libjava on 512MB machine

Sat Feb 3 14:09:00 GMT 2007

Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> "Marco" == Marco Trudel <mtrudel@gmx.ch> writes:
>> Marco> If it takes about 30 to 40min to build this html/parser.o and
> Marco> gnu-xml.o needs about 1 or 2 minutes but is - last time I took a look
> Marco> - a lot bigger than the html parser, shouldn't then be investigated
> Marco> why this html parser is such a hard thing?
>> It is just a really big file.

I think there's more than that. Way bigger files need way less time to 
compile...
> If it still takes too much memory to
> compile, I suppose I, or someone (hint, hint), will look at how to
> shrink it.

Makefile has been updated to split the compilation, right? I just 
compiled a rev 121540 and still, htmp/parser[FOOBAR].o takes way over 30min.
A good example is also to compile ecj.jar. It can need from 1min to way 
over 30min, depending on the gcj. I'll try some test compilations and 
send statistics as soon as my machine is free for some extra work.
This might be a x86, 32bit, static gcj or whatever problem only. But 
optimization seems to be involved...
Marco