[Hello71]

"expensive computers"

"> 4 gigs of memory"

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fsrp=1&_nkw=computer&_sacat...

by my standards, $5 is not an "expensive computer".

and more to the point, the language has little to do with the compilation memory required. Firefox and Chrome require significantly more memory than that to compile nowadays; they passed the 4 GB mark that could be compiled on a 32-bit machine many years ago, and both Firefox and Chrome were written entirely in C++ at the time. furthermore, you can always enable swap. it'll be slow, but if you can't afford a $5 computer, you take what you can get.

[ac29]

Used computers with 4GB of RAM are cheap, but not $5 cheap. The cheapest I saw at that link was $43 including shipping, for a 2008-era system. An Ivy Bridge SFF desktop with 8G RAM is $67 shipped (I have a couple, theyre nice little systems).