Kernel compiles are not particularly memory hungry. LLVM compiles on the other hand are very memory hungry, especially during linking. I’m sure there are other

Kernel compiles are not particularly memory hungry. LLVM compiles on the other hand are very memory hungry, especially during linking. I’m sure there are other 'workstation-ish' jobs that people would happily run on their laptop if it had > 16Gb memory. 64Gb is quite the leap.