[ET Trac] [Einstein Toolkit] #1568: Reduce overhead of Formaline

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#1568: Reduce overhead of Formaline
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  Reporter:  hinder       |       Owner:                     
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new                
  Priority:  major        |   Milestone:                     
 Component:  Cactus       |     Version:  development version
Resolution:               |    Keywords:                     
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Comment (by rhaas):

 Sigh. Another comment lost due to the captcha system badly interacting
 with the browser.

 I wanted to ask if we know more details on what makes large files fail to
 compile. Is it the linker, the compiler, or the OS limiting memory
 consumption?

 I played around with the best way of compiling and found that yes indeed
 arrays are bad and therefore use a long string with all characters encoded
 in octal notation. I am also using only gcc so that I have a compiler that
 is the same everywhere. Perl is also fine with me its not in POSIX though
 so I did not want to use it in SpEC. Really the intention is only to show
 that one can pipe the source into gcc.

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