On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 12:10 PM, Chris Dumez <cdu...@apple.com> wrote:
> I worry about adopting unity build because while it makes clean builds > faster, it also slows down incremental builds. As a developer, I rarely do > clean builds, I mostly do incremental builds so this would likely make my > experience worse? > Unity builds also require a lot of code churn to resolve naming conflicts > and the resulting code does not look as nice. > Just to add a data point, the full build time is currently a bit of a barrier to contributing to the project casually. If I decided to try to work on webkit one night I often ended up updating my tree and building, but not having time for much else. Even for simple patches this became a problem for me. If unified builds cut the full build time by 75% that could be quite helpful for casual contributors.
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