On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 03:59:58 -0500 [email protected] wrote: > That is interesting, but firefox requires 8g I think of temp space, > the very package which takes so long. I have 16g of memory, but I > wonder if my whole system would start to crawl.
I would try it. I have only 8GiB. I used to build firefox in RAM, when it only required 4GiB in the tempdir, which was only a few months ago. Then I had to switch to building on disk. My build times went up from ~16 minutes to ~21.
