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		DoofusOfDeath on Nov 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a rea... For some projects, linking non-stripped binaries can take huge amounts of virtual memory. At least on ELF/DWARF platforms with the Gnu linker. Not sure if that applies here, since I assume the Mac will be using the LLVM linker, and Mach-O != ELF.

yjftsjthsd-h on Nov 17, 2020 [–]

Virtual memory, or real memory? You're never going to run out of virtual memory on a 64-bit platform.

DoofusOfDeath on Nov 17, 2020 | [–]

Virtual memory. I mentioned it in this context because running out of physical memory means the machine starts swapping, which often results in a very undesirable slowdown.

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