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Before anyone chimes in with "just fork chrome".. just to give you an idea of the magnitude of the project. The chromium source code has some 16k cpp source fil

Before anyone chimes in with "just fork chrome".. just to give you an idea of the magnitude of the project. The chromium source code has some 16k cpp source files. Millions of lines of code. All the libraries combined the source advancea at a rate of thousand commits a day. You fork chromium now and tomorrow you're already way behind on merging upstream changes. It takes serious engineering effort just to be able to build that behemoth. And yes the OpenGL drivers are unstable and no, Khronos CTS passing doesnt mean anything wrt stability. The most trusted gfx platform is currently DX11 backend in libAngle.

curt15 8y ago
>It takes serious engineering effort just to be able to build that behemoth. Not to mention resources. System requirements for building on Linux: " >>A 64-bit Intel machine with at least 8GB of RAM. More than 16GB is highly recommended. >>At least 100GB of free disk space." https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/linux_build_instructions.md https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs...
- sliken 8y ago
  Heh, amusing about the memory requirements. The vast majority of chromebooks are 4GB ram. I suspect less than 1% are 8GB ram (they cost 3x as much as the 4GB models).
  - ensiferum 8y ago
    The large memory requirement is mostly due to the linker. Not a runtime requirement per se.