Hacker News: __farre__https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=__farre__Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:06:14 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by __farre__ in "How to make Firefox builds 17% faster"]]>Sorry for being unclear. I'm using Firefox build system lingo without explanations. It's from the command `./mach clobber`, which is similar but not the same as `make clean`. I use 'clobber build' as "a build with no existing build state" and the qualifiers "cold" and "warm" to indicate if cache is empty or filled.

]]>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:00:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762672__farre__https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762672https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762672<![CDATA[New comment by __farre__ in "How to make Firefox builds 17% faster"]]>Post author here. I should've expected these comments, which makes me want to clarify a couple of things.

1. Just because I'm a dev at Mozilla and I got support for buildcache landed in the Firefox repo doesn't make this a Mozilla project. I do this on my own time to help me be more efficient when I actually work.

2. I mainly do this because it's fun. Including the blogging.

3. Sccache is still the compiler cache we're officially developing at Mozilla

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