On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Gregory Szorc <g...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> The high-level cache requires separate things. Modern build systems have > artifact caches built in. They can jump straight to the end result and skip > intermediaries. We can't have nice things with the 30+ year old tool that > is GNU Make. Well, we could, it just require us to invent a build mode that > short-circuits compilation, linking, etc and manually fetches the final > object from the cache. IMO we should build this for Firefox and Firefox OS > developers. We kinda/sorta already have this in xulrunner and parts of > Firefox OS builds. We know the approach works. We just need to make it > turnkey and better integrated with release automation. > Are there any bugs on file with more details about the work needed to get this kind of high level cache for Firefox and/or Firefox OS? As you say, this would dramatically improve build times for front end changes that don't involve C++ at all. If this is too OT for the thread, please ping me on IRC. I'd like to help drag this forward if I can. - Ryan _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
