[MLton] Memory problems with latest CVS?

[Matthew Fluet]

> > I just did a bootstrap from clean sources on a 1G Cygwin machine with
> > no problems.  There were definitely mark-compact GC's going on.  The
> > bootstrap compiler was MLton 20040227.  When I tried to bootstrap
> > using MLton 20040819, I encountered a gc performance problem similar
> > to what Matthew and Brent saw.  That performance problem was in the
> > second round of self compilation, so it is either due to a bug in
> > 20040819 and its runtime or a space leak in the CVS head.  My money's
> > on the former.
>
> My guess is that it is a runtime/GC problem, but I'm not ruling anything
> out.  I've been seeing some truly bizzare behavior.

Has anyone else made any progress on this front?  I'm a little nervous
about making significant changes while this is still an open issue.  But,
I guess that is what CVS is for.