From Kalevi Kolttonen@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 18 20:16:32 2025
Hello!
Maybe this question would be more suitable
on comp.compilers, but I will give it a go
here.
A while back I tried to compile Thunderbird on
Fedora 41, having a laptop with 16GB of RAM.
Apart from one strange strike of luck, all of
my compilation attempts failed miserably.
The reason was that rustc, a Rust compiler,
hogged nearly 16GB of memory. Any compiler
experts around? How is it possible that
a Rust compiler can require that much memory?
I have a rough understanding of the phases
of how C compilers work, but I know practically
nothing of Rust. For the record, this is the
Rust compiler that I used:
~ $ rpm -qi rust
Name : rust
Version : 1.83.0
Release : 1.fc41
Architecture: x86_64