gnetlist does not uses memory efficiently

[ahvezda]

> gnetlist died on me a few times recently and I think
> it's due to some kind of memory limitatation on my
> computer combined with a somewhat surprising amount
> of memory usage on the part of gnetlist. According
> to the linux "top" command, gnetlist is using 27.2% of
> 384Meg (~104M) right before it successfully
> completes processing a schematic I'm working on.
> If I have another memory-hungry application running,
...
> This isn't a big problem for me because I have a
> workaround (close other memory-hungry apps), but it
> might be a problem for other people. FYI, there
> are ~1000 components (?) and 1600 nets on this
> schematic.

Need to examine this in detail and probably cleanup the
internal data structure management inside of gnetlist.
A complete rewrite is probably less work.

[Peter TB Brett (peter-b)]

This will be addressed if/when gnetlist is rewritten. As Ales commented, a complete rewrite is probably less work than reworking the current algorithms to be more efficient.