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
ROFL! Seconded!
The quote itself has a bit of greybeard smell to it, but the "ran out of stuff
to delete at 100GB with 1000 out of 6000 targets compiled" had me in stitches.
On October 31, 2023 10:16:10 AM PDT, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
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>On 31 October 2023 at 19:58, Ivan Krylov wrote:
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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
