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Comment by ghoward

Not GP, I am a Gentoo user that compiles ungoogled-chromium from source. I have a 16-core AMD CPU.

Despite that, it takes 4-8 hours to compile, due to two factors: 40,000+ separate targets, of which most are C++ files (famously slow to compile anyway).

And yes, 40,000+ separate targets is no exaggeration; ninja's first run claims about 18,000 targets, and after it finishes those, it generates a second ninja file that has to compile 23,000 targets.

I personally think it's worth it. Others may disagree, and I can't blame them. I have to run it overnight.

parent ghoward 5 years ago

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