Re: REALLY SLOW chromium compilation

From: Don Lewis <truckman_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 10:51:01 UTC
On 20 Jun, George Mitchell wrote:
> Compiling www/chromium has never been a fast operation, but a couple of
> months ago on my AMD Ryzen 5 2600X, it took a mere 16 to 18 hours to
> compile, and the last couple of times it has been taking over two days!
> I've been running 14.2-RELEASE since the end of January, and I believe
> chromium started using llvm-19 to compile last December.  I can't think
> of any other aspect of my system that changed more recently than that,
> but I could be wrong.
> 
> Is anyone else encountering this as well?  Thanks!           -- George

On my
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700X Eight-Core Processor (3393.86-MHz K8-class CPU)
with 64 GB of RAM and using tmpfs, running -CURRENT with a GENERIC
kernel, and the usual -CURRENT debug stuff, a 16-way parallel build of
chromium with no competition takes about 7.5 hours.