I just want to add that, if debug+opt builds are too slow, we don't
have to leave it at that.  I think it's likely that we could tune our
debug+opt builds to be much faster than they currently are; someone
just needs to profile.

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 5:46 PM, L. David Baron <[email protected]> wrote:
> There have been some problems recently that could have been avoided
> if we'd been running automated tests for Firefox OS on debug builds,
> which we aren't currently doing on https://tbpl.mozilla.org/ .
>
> I think the important characteristic here that we need is that we
> need to test builds compiled with -DDEBUG.  It doesn't matter if the
> builds are optimized or not (given that I'm under the impression
> that running non-optimized B2G is unacceptably slow) and I'd think
> we don't want debug symbols to be part of the binaries on the device
> (which is a characteristic of debug builds on desktop, though I'd
> hope that the build system already does something reasonable here).
>
> I wrote a blog post explaining more generally why I think this is
> important:  http://dbaron.org/log/20130729-debug-builds
>
> Are there plans to have B2G automated tests running on debug builds?
> What's the status, and what's in the way of it happening?
>
> -David
>
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