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Having compiled both: it's not. On the same hardware, Firefox takes ~4x less time to compile than Chromium for me...
by bzbarsky 7y ago
Having compiled both: it's not. On the same hardware, Firefox takes ~4x less time to compile than Chromium for me...
- microcolonel 7y agoWhich platform were you compiling on, and when? It's been some years now, but Chromium used to build with MSVC on Windows.
- I_AM_A_SMURF 7y agoI worked on both, it's no comparison. Firefox builds in about 40min on my macbook pro, Chromium takes like 4 hours?
- tim-- 7y agoI can't even get Chromium to build on my MacBook Pro, so there's that. (15-inch, 2018, 16GB RAM) What magic are you using to be able to build Chromium?
- microcolonel 7y agoAFAIK you'd need to limit the compiler threads, and hopefully the linker doesn't run out of memory. 16GiB of memory is really not enough.
- I_AM_A_SMURF 7y agoLimiting the threads as somebody elses said. For chromium no one really builds it on a laptop, everyone in my team used a build server or a 32 core monster desktop.
- bzbarsky 7y agoSometime in the last 6 months, on Mac and Linux both.