Compiling the latest webkit-gtk took about 3 days of compilation (not the entire day, just when my laptop was on, but still) on my 1.6ghz machine, over 2 gigs of ram (even after disabling the unified jumbo-build), and about a gig of diskspace. I think this took longer than compiling my entire operating system, including the linux kernel, all of opengl, the gcc compiler and gtk too.
And all this to basically show some text and images. (I only need this browser engine to use my bank's website and online maps, even though there is no good reason why javascript is needed for either.) Is there a good reason that it needs to be this way, or is this merely the accidental result of accumulating bloat/feature-creep? A kind of Rube Goldberg machine? It would be great to have a "minimal" build option to only compile the essential stuff, hopefully in less than an hour. Or maybe to break the project up into separate packages that don't all need to be updated. _______________________________________________ webkit-gtk mailing list webkit-gtk@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-gtk
