Thrashing of swap space / virtual memory due to massive code-size is not plausible on modern desktop/laptop computers except with an extremely unreasonable amount of inlining, producing an executable that was hundreds or thousands of megabytes, or if the whole system was compiled with a crazy compiler so all programs were huge, and you had several running at once, and you "only" had a few GiB ... More @Wikipedia
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