On 26 November 2015 at 23:08, Ryan Gonzalez <[email protected]> wrote:

> Holy crap, that's crazy. I built it in debug mode on Linux, but I don't
> think it used that much. I only have 6 GB right now!


You have to remember that a C compiler is one of the largest, most complex
software components that human beings have ever had to produce.
The original C reference manual made it look deceptively easy, but really
there's a ton of stuff going on in there, as you can see.
How they ever got it going on a system with 64Kbytes of address space, I'll
never know.

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