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Honored ContributorIf memory was not enough, the OS would "swap" using a very big file on the drive.... and it becomes very very slow.... with huge drive read/write operations.
Moreover quartus writes temporary files when compiling. 2GB of free drive space may affect compilation time. A long compilation time is due to bad design too : very long datapaths, dividers, MUX that do not cover all possibilities, multicycle, cross clock domain, inferred RAMs (already said), combinational loop (latches :-( )... i have a case where "comodo antivirus+defense plus" puts quartus executable in a sandbox, not only compilation is longerbut the results can't be used !
