[withinboredom]

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).

[dubcanada]

Well lol it is a rather complex piece of software, so maybe take that one back.

Firefox is comparable in that department.

[bzbarsky]

Having compiled both: it's not. On the same hardware, Firefox takes ~4x less time to compile than Chromium for me...

[microcolonel]

Which platform were you compiling on, and when? It's been some years now, but Chromium used to build with MSVC on Windows.

[I_AM_A_SMURF]

I worked on both, it's no comparison. Firefox builds in about 40min on my macbook pro, Chromium takes like 4 hours?

[tim--]

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?

[I_AM_A_SMURF]

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.

[microcolonel]

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.

[bzbarsky]

Sometime in the last 6 months, on Mac and Linux both.