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by dblohm7 1147 days ago
Yeah, no. To this day Firefox developers building Gecko need a beefy desktop machine to be able to do it in a reasonable amount of time. I could do a clean build in 6 minutes with a ThreadRipper whose cores were all pegged, but forget doing the same in under an hour on a laptop.

And that was with unified builds enabled.

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And more importantly, on that same machine the build would take more than ten minutes without unified builds.