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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by dubcanada on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @01:59PM (#22057250)
It's a blank browser, has barely any "Google" specific stuff in it ready to go. It is easy to develop for, doesn't require cross language compiling (rust/c++), builds fast, easy to understand how the different parts work (at least for a browser developer it should be), has documentation, is meant to be used to develop your own browser.
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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by withinboredom on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @03:29PM (#22058124)
Are you sure Chromium builds fast? lol, it takes my laptop with 12 cores and 64gb of ram over an hour to compile from scratch, not counting the ~20gb of git history to download (I maintain an internal build at work).
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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by dubcanada on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @03:51PM (#22058394)
Well lol it is a rather complex piece of software, so maybe take that one back.

Firefox is comparable in that department.

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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by bzbarsky on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @04:21PM (#22058759)
Having compiled both: it's not. On the same hardware, Firefox takes ~4x less time to compile than Chromium for me...
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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by microcolonel on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @05:54PM (#22059730)
Which platform were you compiling on, and when? It's been some years now, but Chromium used to build with MSVC on Windows.
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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by I_AM_A_SMURF on Thursday January 16, 2020 @12:09AM (#22061835)
I worked on both, it's no comparison. Firefox builds in about 40min on my macbook pro, Chromium takes like 4 hours?
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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by tim-- on Thursday January 16, 2020 @01:53AM (#22062206)
I can't even get Chromium to build on my MacBook Pro, so there's that. (15-inch, 2018, 16GB RAM)

What magic are you using to be able to build Chromium?

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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by I_AM_A_SMURF on Friday January 17, 2020 @10:43AM (#22075564)
Limiting the threads as somebody elses said. For chromium no one really builds it on a laptop, everyone in my team used a build server or a 32 core monster desktop.
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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by microcolonel on Thursday January 16, 2020 @10:08AM (#22065158)
AFAIK you'd need to limit the compiler threads, and hopefully the linker doesn't run out of memory. 16GiB of memory is really not enough.
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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by bzbarsky on Saturday January 18, 2020 @12:38AM (#22082554)
Sometime in the last 6 months, on Mac and Linux both.
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