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Not GP, but:

Building Firefox on a macbook air or pro M1: half an hour. Fastest M1 max is around 15 minutes.

Building Firefox on my Threadripper workstation: 5 minutes.



This is also my experience. Large Rust/C/C++ code bases will easily compile 3-4x as quickly with a fast workstation as with a top end laptop. I blame thermal design and power limits




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