[CLN-list] Why is cl_nt_sqrtmodp such a monster?

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Ron Garret wrote on Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 07:57:23AM CET:
> 
> I am trying to build cln-1.1.9 on OS X, and there's one file, 
> cl_nt_sqrtmodp.cc, that brings my poor G4 with a mere (!) 256MB of RAM 
> to its knees.  It took a machine with 750MB of RAM to compile this 
> monster.  Why is this?  The file is not particularly big, nor does it 
> appear on the surface to be doing anything particularly complicated.  
> Does anyone know what it is about this particular file that makes gcc 
> use so much RAM?

Over here it's debugging info.  Setting CXXFLAGS=-O2 (i.e. removing -g)
makes it go from 233K to 40K.  I'd guess compiler memory usage would go
down as well.

If you can find out why g++ creates such a lot of info, you might have
success in complaining to the gcc folks.

Regards,
Ralf