Re: Moving Away from Makefile's

On Sunday, September 2, 2012 5:15:40 PM UTC-4, Gregory Szorc wrote: > A decision has been made: we will be using Python files executing in a > > sandboxed environment (using the technique that Hanno posted). > > Supporting this decision are Ted (build system owner) and Benjamin > > Smedberg a

Re: I/O effect on builds [was Moving Away from Makefile's]

On 8/31/2012 5:28 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 1:25 AM, Gregory Szorc wrote: If you have 9+GB of memory dedicated to building mozilla-central and you are doing warm builds all the time, great, you probably don't need an SSD. But, those conditions are specialized. You have to

Re: The current state of Talos benchmarks

On 8/29/2012 5:00 PM, Matt Brubeck wrote: * I don't like our reactive approach that focuses on trying to identify regressions, and then decide whether to fix them in place, back them out, or ignore them. Instead we should proactively set goals for what our performance should be, and focus on th