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>Did you read the link we're discussing? It's in large part about why the slow startup times for Firefox's build scripts are a problem.

The link we're discussing is about Python runs for the Mercurial test suite. The Firefox build is mentioned in passing. It's not what the post is discussing (and doesn't get into numbers there).

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You claim that it is “totally irrelevant”. A Firefox maintainer, even in passing, claims otherwise.

Maybe not totally irrelevant, but it's in most cases not a factor compared to build times.

For tests, yes.

I can't fathom what Mozilla does for thousands of Python invocations during build. Maybe it's test runs as well?

It doesn't get into the numbers, but it expressly gets into the problems.

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