When compiling multiple source files

[John Colvin]

On Tuesday, 20 August 2013 at 06:50:12 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-08-20 00:27, ProgrammingGhost wrote:
>
>> Is it possible that if I just try to compile 1 file it could 
>> imports
>> enough libraries that import/need the definitions for 
>> additional large
>> libraries which in turn also imports everything causing ram 
>> issues? I'm
>> sure in practice this will almost never happen. But I don't 
>> doubt there
>> are main libraries that use other large libraries and 
>> everything
>> imports/uses everything
>
> I guess I should add that we do have some problems with RAM 
> running the unit tests in Phobos (the standard library). But 
> this is rather due to the heavy use of templates and other 
> compile time features. Not because there is too much code/text 
> in the files.

Hah, ram problems running the unittests..... This old laptop 
can't even summon enough ram to compile phobos at all!