Canonical has announced a RISC-V laptop running Ubuntu will go on sale this year
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That CPU has 8 cores.
In practice, just doing "make -j8" would require those 16GB.
As for laptop usage, some 10h after booting my 16GB x86 laptop, KDE and chromium open with some 200 tabs (the usual), 10GB of swap are already used.
16GB is already barely cutting it, and it would be a major handicap to have any less.
The only times I ran out of RAM because of builds where actually single thread ones: accidentally linking clang with debug symbols and a single threaded verilator elaboration of the XiangShan core.
I don't know whats going on with your setup, but I regularly have two firefox windows with a shit ton of tabs and discord open and struggle to get over 3-4 GB RAM usage.
I also just build ffmpeg and 7zip on the same 8 core risc-v system, but with 4GB RAM and didn't have any problems. It was running in tty though.
Not ideal, but at least that is more than 1GB per core.
>I also just build ffmpeg and 7zip on the same 8 core risc-v system
ffmpeg is C, unsurprising.
7zip is C++ but fairly light.
Try building Chromium or Firefox, perhaps.
>I don't know whats going on with your setup, but I regularly have two firefox windows with a shit ton of tabs and discord open and struggle to get over 3-4 GB RAM usage.
Chromium, but some 200 tabs.
Already shipping.