Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: CompilerPolicy Change

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On Mon, 08 Jun 2020 09:29:27 -0600
Jeff Law <law@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, 2020-06-07 at 13:07 -0700, stan via devel wrote:
> > On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 16:30:09 -0400
> > Ben Cotton <bcotton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >   
> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CompilerPolicy
> > > An obvious example is Firefox.  Upstream, the Firefox project
> > > builds primarily with Clang/LLVM.  Yet we force the Fedora
> > > package owner to find and fix issues building with GCC then
> > > either carry those custom fixes forward in Fedora or negotiate
> > > with upstream to get those changes upstreamed.  While this
> > > process can be helpful in finding non-portable code, this is
> > > ultimately a poor use of the packager's time.  
> > 
> > I compile firefox nightly locally from an hg repository.  What I
> > notice is that although mozilla officially states that it is
> > possible to limit resource use, even though I set a maximum thread
> > count, or maximum load, the clang compiler grabs every core and
> > maxes it out to 100%. Will this change help with that?  i.e.  is
> > this a clang problem?  Or is my experience because of a problem
> > with the firefox compilation process?  
> It's unclear if it's a problem in Clang/LLVM or the firefox build
> procedures. Regardless, this proposal shouldn't change/improve your
> issue in any way.

Thanks.
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