Collin Funk wrote: > Though my machine always ran out of memory when compiling > LLVM unless I did 'ninja -j 1' so be careful. My system might just be > showing its age though.
It's not your system's age that is the problem. It's the C++ toolchains (compiler and linker) that take a huge amount of memory. The compiler is inundanted by megabytes of templates in .h files, and the linker is inundanted by thousands of instantiations of the same templates classes, each from a different compilation unit. It's a known problem for GCC [1] and Firefox [2][3]. Bruno [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/zhs2ag/building_gcc_on_1gb_of_ram/ [2] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=290946 [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hmMR0XooW4
