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Re:Valve Is Paying Open-Source Developers to Work on Proton,... by bombolo on Saturday December 17, 2022 @06:39PM (#34033429)
> 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.

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Re:Valve Is Paying Open-Source Developers to Work on Proton,... by CamperBob2 on Saturday December 17, 2022 @06:46PM (#34033474)
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.
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Re:Valve Is Paying Open-Source Developers to Work on Proton,... by bombolo on Sunday December 18, 2022 @02:25AM (#34035701)
Lol sure… JIT only does the hot paths, not the whole thing. It certainly will not make several mb of output without my computer sounding like an ariane5 launch
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