Reporting first results. We got an icecream setup in SF office and I was able to plug myself into it and got a icecc+ccache+gcc combo with a fresh debug build in <30 min.
On top of that, I had low load on my machine, which is nice as in the meantime I was able to work on other things. Now, two things that are probably still limiting me are: * network, I did this over wifi. I'll get a usb->eth adapter and this should speed up things additionally * I still have only 8GB of ram which is probably the ultimate limiting factor :bdhal says that he got his builds under 5min, which is close to the lower bound I guess. Other notes: * I didn't test without ccache. It may also work better for me, I'll test it later * I failed to get icecc work with clang for some reason Lastly, as much as this does help me, it doesn't help us lower the barrier for contributors not working from the office. They usually have less powerful machines, with less ram and no access to farms. So any work we can do to split those central headers that make 2day rebuilds full rebuilds, would go along way at making the experience of contributing to Gecko better. zb. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
