Malcolm Wallace wrote:
The peaks I am guessing are largely attributable to parsing the source files. Then, once the source has been converted to an AST, the DDC compiler is presumably doing some analysis before moving on to the next file? I think these are the well-behaved flat bits. These phases do not allocate anything fresh, so they are not creating new data-structures, but perhaps are propagating static information around the AST. Something like a type/effect analysis maybe?
Thanks Malcolm, I think you may indeed be correct. It should also be pretty easy to test that hypothesis and that is my next task. Cheers, Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/