MICO idl memory usage

[arp <alan inet co za>]

<delurk>
i'm trying to write a program where a large portion of its objects are 
available via CORBA (using MICO). Whenever i try *any* of the MICO demos 
the IDL compiler runs out of memory very quickly (e.g. after <10 seconds). 
Even on the very simple demos (such as mico/demo/account). I've tried IDL on 
a 4 line class (hello world) and have the same problem.

i'm using gcc 2.7.2 on an ancient 486 (8M ram, 32M swap). i can increase
my swap space but surely something is broken if idl needs this much space
for trivial compiles (or is there something special happening behind
the scenes that i'm missing?).

BTW i'm new to the CORBA world (and GNOME, GTK, ...) so bear with my
stupidity for awhile please.
BTW2: i compiled MICO on a pentium, >64M mem, and installed on my 486.
Surely this couldn't be the problem?
 </delurk>

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