VS 2026's ARM64 code generator needs about 27 GB for
_PyUnicode_ToNumeric, a switch with 1951 cases in
Objects/unicodetype_db.h; the same file takes under 1 GB on x64. The
16 GB CI runner has an 18.9 GB commit limit and only gets through when
Windows grows the pagefile on the temp disk in time, so cold arm64
dependency builds fail at random with C1002 "compiler is out of heap
space". build_release_vs.bat returns 0 on failure, so the job still
reports success and the incomplete dependencies are cached.
A property sheet compiles that one file with optimisation off on arm64;
the rest stays whole-program optimised and x64 is unchanged.
MSBuild reads it from PCbuild/msbuild.rsp, which is now written at
configure time and copied in, so a checkout path with spaces works too.
