Heap out of memory on version 4.2

Bug Report

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🕗 Version & Regression Information

On a Vue project the compiler crashes with Heap out of memory. This does not happen on version 4.1.3.

⠙  Building for production...Starting type checking service...
Using 1 worker with 2048MB memory limit
⠼  Building for production...
<--- Last few GCs --->

[34642:0x41419c0]   211431 ms: Scavenge 956.0 (980.7) -> 940.2 (980.7) MB, 0.3 / 0.0 ms  (average mu = 0.996, current mu = 0.994) allocation failure 
[34642:0x41419c0]   211566 ms: Scavenge 956.0 (980.7) -> 940.2 (980.7) MB, 0.3 / 0.0 ms  (average mu = 0.996, current mu = 0.994) allocation failure 
[34642:0x41419c0]   211705 ms: Scavenge 956.0 (980.7) -> 940.2 (980.7) MB, 0.3 / 0.0 ms  (average mu = 0.996, current mu = 0.994) allocation failure 


<--- JS stacktrace --->

==== JS stack trace =========================================

    0: ExitFrame [pc: 0xa9c298dbf1d]
Security context: 0x29d2e9a1e6c1 <JSObject>
    1: parseList(aka parseList) [0x292d524ccc59] [/home/qp/IdeaProjects/MyEtherWallet/node_modules/typescript/lib/typescript.js:~30031] [pc=0xa9c29c58125](this=0x3ba7b93026f1 <undefined>,kind=0,parseElement=0x292d524cfa99 <JSFunction parseStatement (sfi = 0x3ef7041e4489)>)
    2: parseSourceFileWorker(aka parseSourceFileWorker) [0x292d524cbb99] [/home/qp/Idea...

FATAL ERROR: invalid array length Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory
 1: 0x8fb090 node::Abort() [/home/qp/.nvm/versions/node/v10.23.3/bin/node]
 2: 0x8fb0dc  [/home/qp/.nvm/versions/node/v10.23.3/bin/node]
 3: 0xb033be v8::Utils::ReportOOMFailure(v8::internal::Isolate*, char const*, bool) [/home/qp/.nvm/versions/node/v10.23.3/bin/node]
 4: 0xb035f4 v8::internal::V8::FatalProcessOutOfMemory(v8::internal::Isolate*, char const*, bool) [/home/qp/.nvm/versions/node/v10.23.3/bin/node]
 5: 0xef7652  [/home/qp/.nvm/versions/node/v10.23.3/bin/node]
 6: 0xed0734 v8::internal::Factory::NewFixedArrayWithFiller(v8::internal::Heap::RootListIndex, int, v8::internal::Object*, v8::internal::PretenureFlag) [/home/qp/.nvm/versions/node/v10.23.3/bin/node]
 7: 0xed0d07 v8::internal::Factory::NewUninitializedFixedArray(int, v8::internal::PretenureFlag) [/home/qp/.nvm/versions/node/v10.23.3/bin/node]
 8: 0xe8408f  [/home/qp/.nvm/versions/node/v10.23.3/bin/node]
 9: 0x112a71d v8::internal::Runtime_GrowArrayElements(int, v8::internal::Object**, v8::internal::Isolate*) [/home/qp/.nvm/versions/node/v10.23.3/bin/node]
10: 0xa9c298dbf1d 
⠼  Building for production...Type checking and linting aborted - probably out of memory. Check `memoryLimit` option in ForkTsCheckerWebpackPlugin configuration.
⠏  Building for production...

⏯ How to reproduce:

1. Use Node 10
2. git clone --branch 21-add-typescript-support git@github.com:theqp/MyEtherWallet.git
3. Change typescript to 4.2.2 (it would work otherwise)
4. npm i
5. echo "" > package-test.js && NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=4096" npm run build
6. Wait for the crash :D

Start by reproducing the Node 10 build using the listed MyEtherWallet branch, TypeScript 4.2.2, and the npm run build command. Inspect the parseList and parseSourceFileWorker stack entries in node_modules/typescript/lib/typescript.js, along with the ForkTsCheckerWebpackPlugin memoryLimit configuration. Done means the 4.2.2 build completes without exhausting the JavaScript heap while the regression remains covered.