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Sure, as I mentioned I'm just genuinely curious what the use-case is.

For example, running a compiler test suite I could understand, that would be quite impacted. But those tests wouldn't be multi-GB builds for the most part.

And I could understand being annoyed by it, but the author took steps to work around it, hence finding it unacceptable.

Far from my day job, so curious to know.

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not_your_vase 9 hours ago | parent [-]

I see, at the first time it sounded more like questioning the project's reason to exist...

E.g. Chromium, Firefox, clang, including debug symbols will be quite sizable - Chromium sometimes trips me up when I somehow (usually accidentally) enable the debug config, and the only thing I see is the linker complaining that my 32-bit Arm target will be unhappy with the 6GB+ executable... I imagine some people do this intentionally, hacking on these projects directly.

	▲	magicalhippo 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		English is not my native language, and us Norwegians are known to be direct. Anyway, now that you mention it I do recall the C++ project I worked on way back started to crash the linker due to running out of address space. Had to switch to the 64bit version. Though didn't recompile often, it was slow enough that I reread my code several times before compiling, even in debug mode.