i just was doing some rust compilation just now and on my 64gb memory system it blew up the heap and caused numerous processes to stop responding for some time and some processes just plain died, and even my cinnamon desktop manager died and restarted itself

in this day and age, why am i still facing out of memory problems running compilers? GCC has this fixed, so has clang, but no, not rust. 

 there is a flag `-j` for cargo that limits the number of parallel compilations. it doesn't show you in the `cargo help` though

homos