Re: [Boost-build] bjam memory consumption

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-16 17:01:28

Rene Rivera <grafik.list_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> Tomas Puverle <Tomas.Puverle_at_[hidden]> writes:
>> 
>>>> I hope we can move more of the code to Python soon.
>>> Can you please elaborate on what you mean?  What code do you want to
>>> move to Python?  All of bjam?  Parts of it?
>> 
>> Ideally, everything, except possibly the interpreter for user-written
>> Jamfiles and a few other low-level components.
>
> Perhaps we need to be more specific about what exceptions are? I'd 
> certainly to know as the maintainer of Boost.Jam ;-) In particular I was 
> planning to rewrite the symbol table, i.e. the hash table, to use my 
> rank tree implementation as a test bed for doing the same thing to 
> binutils-ld (which still has serious performance problems with C++ debug 
> symbols). But I won't bother if this is one of the parts that would be 
> superseded using Python, and just go straight to hacking on the 
> binutils-ld code instead.

Whatever happens, the *total* replacement of the built-in hashtable in
bjam is a long way off.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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