On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 11:27 PM, David Major <dma...@mozilla.com> wrote: > We plan to switch the Windows build machines to Visual Studio 2013 on the > Firefox 35 train. > > Some benefits from this change: > * No more linker OOM crashes. VS2013 includes a 64-bit toolchain for 32-bit > builds, so the linker will no longer be limited to 4GB address space. > * The linker capacity opens the door for merging our binaries into libxul > (like we do on the other platforms) > * More than 2x improvement in PGO build times > * Better language support > > The tracking bug is 914596. The remaining blockers are here: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=914596&hide_resolved=1 > > David > _______________________________________________ > firefox-dev mailing list > firefox-...@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev
Awesome! Thanks for taking this on. - Kyle _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
