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0 pointsdudus1y ago0 comments

FWIW I once tried and failed to compile Chrome. My machine didn't have enough RAM to compile chrome at the time. Even though it was able to fully compile any other software I threw at it.

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poincaredisk1y ago· 1 in thread

I think parent's point was that Chrome is not open-source, chromium is.

ramesh311y ago

But also this. Compiling Chromium from source is a nontrivial task, even for a senior dev, and requires an extremely powerful system.

sebazzz1y ago

Is that special to the Chrome codebase, or inherent to the fact that a web browser is now basically an operating system by itself?

lifesaverluke1y ago

Yeah, you need a big machine. I provide Chromium builds for AWS Lambda, compiling on a large EC2 instance.

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