Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!CAEN.ENGIN.UMICH.EDU!pha From: pha@CAEN.ENGIN.UMICH.EDU (Paul H. Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: PRISM Fortran compiler causes trashing! Message-ID: <475d5f510.000f088@caen.engin.umich.edu> Date: 11 Dec 89 16:51:34 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 12 Compiles that go on to no end due to page faults can be fixed by splitting files up, as you mentioned, or by reducing the level of optimization, which is a very memory intensive process. For example, if you have 10000 lines of code compiling at max optimization leve, it will be doing an awful lot of global optimization, in attempts to remove redunant code, reuse common code, etc. Addiing memory is a good solution, and should take care of most of the problem. Paul Anderson CAEN