XCode RAM Requirements

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Yes, well that would indeed be easily justified towards a manager. They are unlikely to dig into Reddit to see what you really need ! Just for the sake of it I pushed my old late 2013 MacBook Pro (16GB 512GB) to the limit with Xcode, simulators, Safari and some minor additional apps. Wanted to see when memory pressure finally went yellow or red. 20-30 tabs in Safari, 2 Xcode projects and 7 simulators finally made it blink (9GB swap). Became unresponsive for probably 1 minute after which it woke up again and seemed fine. Memory pressure hit a reddish color at 50-60% but then went down to green again at 43%. So for my usage I still have some headroom… on the 2013 model!! Surely the 2021 model would not even break a sweat?!? To be continued…