On November 26, 2015 5:21:54 PM CST, Charles Forsyth <[email protected]> wrote: >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.
I read in LBAC that one compiler had about 80 passes. All of which stored their results on disk. I can't help but shudder at the thought of how long those things took to compile... -- Sent from my Nexus 5 with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
