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On Monday, October 17, 2016 11:01:40 AM EDT Ian Stakenvicius wrote: |
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> On 17/10/16 10:54 AM, Michael Mol wrote: |
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> > There's also firefox-bin, which gets built upstream with profile-guided |
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> > optimizations enabled. PGO is unsupported outside of upstream's build |
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> > process, last I checked...but that was a few years ago. |
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> Mozilla project has a dev that's supporting PGO builds in the source |
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> package now. |
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> That said, the primary reason why the mozilla *-bin packages exist in |
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> Gentoo is because that's all that upstream officially supports. |
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There you go, I had NO idea that was an upstream binary. I thought it was the |
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same as firefox from source. I assumed a Gentoo developer built and packaged |
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that. I did not assume it was an official binary. |
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The only way for users to know is to investigate... |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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