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Re:GCC 4.9.0 released by awda on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @05:44PM (#7630694)
It seems more like they were doing something really dumb before to waste 11.5GB unnecessarily, but potato poh-tat-oh. I'm just happy it keeps getting better. :)
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Re:GCC 4.9.0 released by kcbanner on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @10:24PM (#7631713)
I wouldn't call LTO "really dumb"
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Re:GCC 4.9.0 released by awda on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @03:42PM (#7636408)
Me either. But to scrape off 80% of memory use, you had to be wasting 400% of the lower limit -- which seems dumb in retrospect.
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