Re: Reducing memory footprint?
Dan Sugalski (sugalskd@osshe.edu)
Tue, 09 Mar 1999 15:12:56 -0800
At 10:50 PM 3/9/99 +0000, Alan Burlison wrote:
>Thanks for the suggestions - I thought that it would be too good to be
>true if there was a 'magic bullet'. Ah well, I suppose we'll just have
>to add in another dozen CPUs and another 6 0r 7 Gb of memory then ;-)
Have you tried building with perl's malloc? Might save you a bit. Also, how
big is the optree? A variation on the patch I sent out earlier today could
trim out 4 bytes per node in the tree. If the tree is big (or you've got
lots of 'em) that might make a bit of a difference too.
Dan
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