TypeScript typings cause very high memory usage in tsc

When importing googleapis within a TypeScript project, tsc takes up a large amount of memory (500 MB+). This appears to be the case because when googleapis is imported, it imports the type definition files for every single API that Google has, even if only a single API (e.g. drive_v3) is required.

Environment details

• OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
• Node.js version: 10.20.1 (LTS)
• npm version: N/A (We don't use npm instally, but we use yarn v1.22.4)
• googleapis version: 51.0.0
• typescript version: 3.8.3

Steps to reproduce

Please see reproduction repository here: https://github.com/yjwong/tsc-googleapis-memory-usage

Essentially, even just a simple:

import { google } from 'googleapis';

Will result in high memory usage from tsc.

There is also a related StackOverflow question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56599477/typescript-googleapis-surge-in-memory-used

Workaround

Import the APIs individually, like so (example is Google Drive SDK v3):

import { drive_v3 } from 'googleapis/build/src/apis/drive/v3';
import { AuthPlus } from 'googleapis-common/build/src/authplus';