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But why is it so big in the first place? I was searching around for causes and came across the following issues: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/15358 ht
by h4ch1 7mo ago
But why is it so big in the first place?
I was searching around for causes and came across the following issues:
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/15358 https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/15358 which was moved to https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/issues/30193 https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/issues/30193
The following quotes stand out
> zig's caching system is designed explicitly so that garbage collection could happen in one process simultaneously while the cache is being used by another process.
> I just ran WizTree to find out why my disk was full, and the zig cache for one project alone was like 140 GB.
> not only the .zig-cache directory in my projects, but the global zig cache directory which is caching various dependencies: I'm finding each week I have to clear both caches to prevent run-away disk space
Like what's going on? This doesn't seem normal at all. I also read somewhere that zig stores every version of your binary as well? Can you shed some light on why it works like this in zigland?
- Cloudef 7mo agoAFAIK garbage collection is basically not implemented yet. I myself do `ZIG_LOCAL_CACHE_DIR=~/.cache/zig` so I only have to nuke single directory whenever I feel like it.