Re:Valve Is Paying Open-Source Developers to Work on Proton,...
by craftkiller on Saturday December 17, 2022 @06:10PM
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Everything is getting recompiled all the time anyway. At least with FreeBSD, any time a dependency is updated, all the packages that depend on that package get rebuilt. There's no concept of "this was a small update and its dynamically linked", its just "the version string changed, so rebuild everything that lists it as a dependency". This is particularly "fun" for web browsers because they have a lot of dependencies, ensuring they're rebuilt often, and they take a long time to build.
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Re:Valve Is Paying Open-Source Developers to Work on Proton,...
by bombolo on Saturday December 17, 2022 @06:39PM
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> Everything is getting recompiled all the time anyway.
Source? I know when stuff on my distribution gets recompiled because then I have to download and unpack it, so I notice.
I can assure you that it isn't as you say.
> with FreeBSD
Despite the monorepo thing, I assure you that most FreeBSD users do use software coming from other places as well.
Re:Valve Is Paying Open-Source Developers to Work on Proton,...
by CamperBob2 on Saturday December 17, 2022 @06:46PM
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If nothing else, you probably see several megabytes' worth of JIT compilation whenever you visit a JavaScript-heavy web page. Same effect... namely, none at all.