If i remember rightly one of the early Algol compilers for the IBM mainframe couldnt be compiled on an IBM mainframe because it was too memory hungry (it had to be cross compiled). The numbers change, but the problems don’t, except that i haven’t run a compile lately that ran out of memory like that.
On Tue, 31 Oct 2023 at 12:24 pm, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > On 31 October 2023 at 19:58, Ivan Krylov wrote: > | [...] The computers that helped launch the first > | people into space had 2 kWords of memory, but nowadays you need more > | than 256 MBytes of RAM to launch a bird into a pig and 10 GBytes of > | storage in order to compile a compiler. This is what progress looks > | like. > > Fortune!! > > Dirk > > -- > dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
