From a previous blog post from someone on the Chrome team (that I cannot find), the debug build is unusable slow. Browsers are monstrously complex[0], and it wo

From a previous blog post from someone on the Chrome team (that I cannot find), the debug build is unusable slow. Browsers are monstrously complex[0], and it would have to somehow deal with the complexities of multithreaded execution. Not impossible, but almost assuredly adds a performance overhead to an already slow debug build. [0] The oft sited string allocations per keystroke: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/chromium-dev/EUqoIz2iFU4/kPZ5ZK0K3gEJ https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/chromiu...