Digger 1.0

Nick Treleaven via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Tue Sep 23 03:20:52 PDT 2014


On 22/09/2014 19:59, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> Firefox requires 4GB of memory to build.
> Chromium requires 8GB of memory to build.
> Android requires 16GB of memory to build.

Thanks for the info, I didn't realize.

> If you want to work on big projects, you WILL need a decent computer.
>
> I think 4GB for a modern programming language's implementation is not an
> unreasonable requirement, even if it could be brought down in the
> future. Especially considering that you can't even buy a new laptop
> today with less than 4GB of RAM, and 3GB is becoming the norm for
> smartphones.

OK. Perhaps I can upgrade my RAM (I can't afford a new computer). 
Linking phobos.lib is the first time I've got OOM, I use Firefox 
heavily. phobos.lib is only 10 MB, which is why I thought it odd that 
linking uses well over 1 GB.


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