I use xxd for this and the problem is far from solved. Around 5MB or so, the compile times explode. Somewhere around 7MB I could no longer self-host on 32-bit p

I use xxd for this and the problem is far from solved. Around 5MB or so, the compile times explode. Somewhere around 7MB I could no longer self-host on 32-bit platforms and had to cross-compile from a 64-bit machine with more memory. Around 10MB the compilers start crashing. These are not very big files. The time added for the couple of resource files far, far exceeds the time it takes to compile the whole rest of the project. I had to add special compile-time options to exclude resources for development builds so I wouldn't drive myself crazy with the long compile times. I previously used all the platform-specific methods mentioned in the article and they don't have this problem, but it's an absurd amount of complexity to handle every platform's little way of doing it in my Makefile.