Re: [Boost-build] Garbage collected BJam

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-06 16:34:16

Sohail Somani wrote:

> I didn't know the usage gets that high. What are the main causes?

Only one cause: Bjam interns all strings it uses for implementing the 
Jam language interpreter. And since all operations generate some sort of 
string list the add up quickly. BBv2 makes even heavier use of strings 
than BBv1 so the problems are more noticeable now.

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