Comment by sfink

Heh, it's a fun reminder that different people work on different things.

Sure, I could load up my build machine with mac/windows/linux/android, with multiple versions of each. Emulating x86+x86_64+arm32+arm64+aarch64+... is also doable, sort of.

But considering that the real CI runs several thousand hours of tests total across all platforms, I think I won't.

Also, my Electron-based IDE needs those 10s of GB to edit text. How can you possibly edit a 1KB text file with less than 1GB of RAM?

Not to mention clangd that needs to do its ultra-important work Right Now so I can invalidate it all with my next edit. That's probably the biggest RAM hog of them all.