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throwup on Oct 25, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Zig Is Self-Hosted Now, What's Next?

Zig puts the whole project into a single giant compilation unit. This has some benefits, but one of the drawbacks as you note is memory usage for larger projects.

eatonphil on Oct 25, 2022 [–]

See also: MLton and whole-program compilation.

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