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From: "»Q«" <boxcars@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox.bin vs firefox
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 02:19:02
Message-Id: 20141218201831.019450ce@sepulchrave.remarqs
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] firefox.bin vs firefox by covici@ccs.covici.com
1 On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 03:59:58 -0500
2 covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
3
4 > That is interesting, but firefox requires 8g I think of temp space,
5 > the very package which takes so long. I have 16g of memory, but I
6 > wonder if my whole system would start to crawl.
7
8 I would try it. I have only 8GiB. I used to build firefox in RAM, when
9 it only required 4GiB in the tempdir, which was only a few months ago.
10 Then I had to switch to building on disk. My build times went up from
11 ~16 minutes to ~21.