What is the memory usage limit on DMD linux?

[BCS]

Reply to Jascha,

> BCS wrote:
> 
>> current stats:
>> 
>> 14min 14sec compile time
>> ~1070MB memory usage (256 actual memeory)
>> And that's only the 26 productions needed to define expressions!
>> 
>> BTW does anyone known of an command line tool that will given me peak
>> memory usage on linux?
>> 
> wow - the worst i've seen is 3-5 minutes and <600mb, but only when
> optimizing 10000+ line switch-statements with 800+ cases. without -O,
> optimizing compile times are adequate (<1min).
> did you try compiling with GDC or DMD on windows?

DMD win gives, "symbol name to long my 10K+" errors.

Another thing I noted is that the object file is about 100MB (I'm only creating 
about 40 non trivial funtions and about 40-60 trivial ones) and I'm starting 
to get link errors. :-b