Why has pbc_to_exe become unusable?

[Andrew Dougherty]

Anybody have any idea what happened to pbc_to_exe?  With the released 
version of 2.3.0, building with Sun's cc on i386 with 4 GB of memory, 
pbc_to_exe parrot-nqp took me about 3 seconds. With
r45860, it took about 35 minutes before panicing with

$ time make parrot-nqp
./pbc_to_exe parrot-nqp.pbc
Failed allocation of 1064262424 bytes
Parrot VM: PANIC: Out of mem!
C file src/gc/alloc_memory.c, line 151
Parrot file (not available), line (not available)

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on
Parrot.  Use parrotbug (located in parrot's root directory) or send an
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Include the entire text of this error message and the text of the script 
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describe them as well.

Version     : 2.3.0-devel
Configured  : Wed Apr 21 18:02:25 2010 GMT
Architecture: i386-linux
JIT Capable : No
Interp Flags: (no interpreter)
Exceptions  : (missing from core)

Dumping Core...
make: *** [parrot-nqp] Quit

real    35m11.790s
user    13m37.371s
sys     19m56.563s

-- 
    Andy Dougherty		doughera at lafayette.edu