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Build Prerequisites
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To build Rakudo Star you need at least a C compiler, a 'make' utility,
-and Perl 5.8.4 or newer.
+and Perl 5.8.4 or newer. You probably also want a machine with a fair
+amount of memory available: 256MB is known to be too small for building
+Rakudo, while 1GB is generally known to be sufficient.
In order to fully support Unicode, you'll also want to have the
ICU library installed (http://site.icu-project.org/).