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Dillo browser

Just read this post: "building dillo only takes ~20min" on a IBM ThinkPad 380Z from 1998, with a "powerful 233MHz Pentium II, and whopping 160 megs of RAM". Truly amazing! :D

luke8086.dev/netbsd-on-thinkpa

luke8086.devRunning NetBSD on IBM ThinkPad 380Z

@dillo i should repeat that on my PowerPC desktop (128 MiB RAM, 400 MHz CPU clock)

@jn that would be very nice! I'll appreciate if you send some picture for the gallery: dillo-browser.github.io/galler

dillo-browser.github.ioGallery

@dillo @jn Later I will post one under a n270 netbook showing up a Gemini site :)

@dillo
Nice :) I just wonder how programmers were able to create anything on such large projects, change a line, recompile (wait 20 mins), look at the change, repeat... ? I hope Dillo has some ways to split the whole codebase into sub-tasks which can be compiled and tested separately.

@amarok "make" only rebuilds the required objects, so changing a line typically only involves rebuilding one object and then relinking the browser (a few seconds in my machine).