On Thursday, 12 July 2018 15:50:40 UTC+12, [email protected] wrote: > I hope that both Firefox and Chrome continue to keep the build and tests > running on MSVC. It would suck if for example we can't build Firefox with > MSVC.
I can't comment on Chrome. > Will the Firefox team publish builds of Firefox from both MSVC and Clang with > symbols so we can profile ourselves and compare which is faster for the > webpages we use? The MSVC nightly builds will likely continue until we fully commit to clang-cl. It is expensive to maintain MSVC workarounds and given that cross-language LTO[1] is compelling for Firefox, it is unlikely we'd return to MSVC. Anthony [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/49879 _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
