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> Bonus points for a browser repo that could do that. Let me add a menu option that reads, "Poop" in less than ten seconds. (Btw-- how are incremental builds fo

> Bonus points for a browser repo that could do that. Let me add a menu option that reads, "Poop" in less than ten seconds. (Btw-- how are incremental builds for browsers? If someone wants to printf their way through a bug, what's the recompile latency like?) In my experience - this is a bit painful. I got my Ryzen machine to build FF in about 20 minutes through very liberal use of build caches, 40G RAMdisk and making the build process have priority over everything else. I doubt that sub-minute builds are possible on easily accessible hardware, but I would love to be proven wrong here.

jancsika 5y ago
Holy crap why is your comment getting turned grey?!? Interesting-- is the 20 minute duration for a full compile from scratch, or for an incremental recompile?
- VTimofeenko 5y ago
  > Holy crap why is your comment getting turned grey?!? Not sure. I'm new to writing comments on Hacker News, perhaps I broke some unspoken etiquette rule. > is the 20 minute duration for a full compile from scratch, or for an incremental recompile? I believe it was the compilation time for a X -> X+1 version upgrade. I've been using precompiled firefox-bin for quite a while, so X could be ~70. I think it would be interesting to test and see those numbers on a modern version of Firefox.