[MacPorts] #16981: openvrml-0.17.9: new port

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#16981: openvrml-0.17.9: new port
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 Reporter:  raphael@…           |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  enhancement         |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal              |   Milestone:  Port Submissions                     
Component:  ports               |     Version:  1.6.0                                
 Keywords:  vrml new port       |        Port:  openvrml                             
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Comment(by braden@…):

 Replying to [comment:24 devans@…]:
 > On the memory utilization issue when compiling parse_vrml97.cpp Braden
 says
 >
 > > On my machine, parse_vrml.cpp's high water mark in memory seems to be
 > > somewhere between 900 MB and 1 GB. I think this means that OpenVRML
 > > should compile comfortably in a non-parallel build on 64-bit machines
 > > with at least 2 GB of memory; and on 32-bit machines with at least 1
 GB
 > > of memory. For machines with more memory, OpenVRML's build will
 > > parallelize pretty nicely.
 >

 These comments--taken from a posting to the openvrml-develop mailing list
 --apply to '''trunk''' OpenVRML; the situation with the 0.17.''x'' series
 can be expected to be significantly worse. (Note that OpenVRML 0.17.''x''
 doesn't even have a file named `parse_vrml.cpp`.)

 > I concur with his memory usage figures.  Virtual memory size gets up to
 almost
 > 900 MB before hitting the bus error problem with significant thrashing
 of swap
 > space.  I'm using a G4 Power Mac (Quicksilver) with 640 MB of physical
 ram.

 Is this from compiling trunk OpenVRML or 0.17.''x''?

 > Have ordered another 1 GB of memory to bring it up to 1.5 GB.
 >
 > However, I still think that there work to be done in breaking up these
 files
 > to make things compile easier.  Nothing else in MacPorts comes close to
 these
 > memory usage figures.

 I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if nothing else in MacPorts includes
 Spirit grammars nearly as large as OpenVRML's.

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