I don't usually write here because I'm old enough to understand Macy's tit tattoo reference.
"Gotta tattooed tit say number 13"
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I know there had to be someone that got that...
Just because I'm curious. How much RAM do you have and how much more do you need? As someone older than dirt who dealt with computers when we counted our memory in kilobytes, I'm always amazed that many gigabytes isn't enough. The first computer I was paid to program had 64 kilobytes, and we used it to run a completely standalone terminal system.
IKR. I know Moore's law and all, you gotta allow for some bloat in all that time, but builds requiring many GBs of RAM just... But I figure the way ren'py's using Gradle is probably not entirely what it was designed to do or at least, optimized for.
So, I have 16G. Ordered out for an additional 16, and just for good measure a full set of 32 just in case the existing and new 16 don't mix well. But in the mean time, with the help of some discord users, the issue seems narrowed down to Gradle pulling all the files in the source directory into the JVM memory, whether or not they're included in the distribution, and I'm trying a quick test-run to see stripping the source .pngs out before a build helps, before work starts today.