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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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