Processing Android's browser takes minutes rather than seconds
I don't understand why, but getting some configuration item for Android takes very long, more than two minutes in my machine!
> time rbm/rbm showconf browser build --target release --target torbrowser-android-armv7
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Executed in 122.71 secs fish external
usr time 121.11 secs 341.00 micros 121.11 secs
sys time 1.62 secs 84.00 micros 1.62 secs
Desktop takes only a few seconds:
> time rbm/rbm showconf browser build --target release --target torbrowser-linux-x86_64
[...]
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Executed in 16.12 secs fish external
usr time 12.49 secs 0.00 micros 12.49 secs
sys time 0.66 secs 696.00 micros 0.66 secs
I think one of the problems is that we combine all 4 architectures:
> time rbm/rbm showconf geckoview filename --target release --target torbrowser-android-x86_64
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Executed in 23.97 secs fish external
usr time 20.62 secs 327.00 micros 20.62 secs
sys time 0.68 secs 83.00 micros 0.68 secs
> time rbm/rbm showconf geckoview filename --target release --target torbrowser-android-x86_64 --step build_apk
[...]
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Executed in 116.48 secs fish external
usr time 115.02 secs 306.00 micros 115.02 secs
sys time 1.47 secs 81.00 micros 1.47 secs
And then I'm wondering if we're missing possible caching strategies, or if we could offload the computation to multiple threads.