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From: Oliver Kleinke <oliver.kleinke@c-01a.de>
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Subject: Re: Increasing GNAT's heap
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 16:39:23 +0100
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> I don't believe it has anything to do with GCC. It looks clearly like
> GNAT issue which, BTW, also leads to extremely sluggish compilation.
> After all, if you allocate 2+ GB of memory you have to fill it with
> some junk and that takes time, much time.

I suppose this has to do with swapping/paging, so the sluggishness might
not be GNAT's fault.