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>Not everyone needs a 16GB machine to compile huge current C++ projects.

These days 64GB is barely sufficient for that.

We really need to switch to mold linker.


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anthk10/12/2024

You can always reduce the number of jobs from make/ninja to 4...

But, yes, you are right; the issue lies on linking. LibTD requires 2GB as minimum, but linking takes ages. At least with GCC, Clang requires far less RAM.