[CLN-list] Why is cl_nt_sqrtmodp such a monster?

[Ron Garret]

I am trying to build cln-1.1.9 on OS X, and there's one file, 
cl_nt_sqrtmodp.cc, that brings my poor G4 with a mere (!) 256MB of RAM 
to its knees.  It took a machine with 750MB of RAM to compile this 
monster.  Why is this?  The file is not particularly big, nor does it 
appear on the surface to be doing anything particularly complicated.  
Does anyone know what it is about this particular file that makes gcc 
use so much RAM?

Thanks,
Ron Garret
ron at flownet.com