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cookieperson on May 27, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Servo, the parallel browser engine written in Rust

Thread ripper with nvme drives for rust development make compile times a giggle.

Not sure what you mean by bugs due to incremental compilation? I've never seen it happen anyways.

kbrosnan on May 27, 2023 [–]

Happens with some frequency with building Gecko. You can see documented instances of it for the CLOBBER file. It allows the person building to optionally have the build system force a clean rebuild.

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/log/tip/CLOBBER https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/build/buildsystem/mo...

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