Oh, my laptop has only 4 core and I won't buy a machine or a compiler farm account only to develope Gecko because my machine works perfectly for all my other puoposes.
This is not the first time you blame my poor hardware. Mozilla (you are a Mozilla employee, aren't you?) does not want my contribution? Thank you very much! On 2016/07/06 4:12, Gregory Szorc wrote: > On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Steve Fink <sf...@mozilla.com> wrote: > >> I work remotely, normally from my laptop, and I have a single (fairly >> slow) desktop usable as a compile server. >> > > Gecko developers should have access to 8+ modern cores to compile Gecko. > Full stop. The cores can be local (from a home office), on a machine in a > data center you SSH or remote desktop into, or via a compiler farm (like > IceCC running in an office). > > If you work from home full time, you should probably have a modern and > beefy desktop at home. I recommend 2x Xeon E5-2637v4 or E5-2643v4. Go with > the E5 v4's, as the v3's are already obsolete. If you go with the higher > core count Xeons, watch out for clock speed: parts of the build like > linking libxul are still bound by the speed of a single core and the Xeons > with higher core counts tend to drop off in CPU frequency pretty fast. That > means slower libxul links and slower builds. > > Yes, dual socket Xeons will be expensive and more than you would pay for a > personal machine. But the cost is insignificant compared to your cost as an > employee paid to work on Gecko. So don't let the cost of something that > would allow you to do your job better discourage you from asking for > something! If you hit resistance buying a dual core Xeon machine, ping > Lawrence Mandel, as he possesses jars of developer productivity lubrication > that have the magic power of unblocking purchase requests. > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
