diff --git a/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/pkg/NativeConfig.java b/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/pkg/NativeConfig.java
index f1151c262bc2c1..119ce96c17cad4 100644
--- a/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/pkg/NativeConfig.java
+++ b/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/pkg/NativeConfig.java
@@ -382,6 +382,17 @@ public static class Debug {
     @ConfigItem
     public boolean enableDashboardDump;
 
+    /**
+     * Instruct GraalVM / Mandrel to parse compiler graphs only once before static analysis. When false, compiler graphs
+     * are parsed once for the static analysis and once again for the AOT compilation.
+     *
+     * This is set to {@code false} by default because single parsing significantly increases memory usage at build time
+     * see https://github.com/oracle/graal/issues/3435 and
+     * https://github.com/graalvm/mandrel/issues/304#issuecomment-952070568 for more details.
+     */
+    @ConfigItem(defaultValue = "false")
+    public boolean enableParseOnce;
+
     /**
      * Supported Container runtimes
      */
diff --git a/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/pkg/steps/NativeImageBuildStep.java b/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/pkg/steps/NativeImageBuildStep.java
index 3ff25b1ea90438..67bc8f0996ebec 100644
--- a/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/pkg/steps/NativeImageBuildStep.java
+++ b/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/pkg/steps/NativeImageBuildStep.java
@@ -690,6 +690,10 @@ public NativeImageInvokerInfo build() {
                     nativeImageArgs.add("-H:+DashboardAll");
                 }
 
+                if (!nativeConfig.enableParseOnce) {
+                    nativeImageArgs.add("-H:-ParseOnce");
+                }
+
                 if (nativeImageSecurityProviders != null && !nativeImageSecurityProviders.isEmpty()) {
                     String additionalSecurityProviders = nativeImageSecurityProviders.stream()
                             .map(p -> p.getSecurityProvider())