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It's probably the main reason historically that compiling and linking are separate steps. Back in the day, you might not have had enough memory to even load all

It's probably the main reason historically that compiling and linking are separate steps. Back in the day, you might not have had enough memory to even load all of the source at the same time. But yeah, that was decades ago.

astrange 4y ago
On a 32-bit system there's definitely still projects out there that can't be compiled all in the same address space.
- gpderetta 4y ago
  I very much worked on c++ projects that could not be easily linked on 64bit machines with too little (say, 64gb) of ram, without swapping heavily.