: so the lunchroom conversation always went like: "oh man, so slow to rebuild on Windows..."
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: "yeah, but debugging's great" "good point" "but have you built on Linux? ZOMG. Gotta try it. Ask mal@ for an extra workstation"
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: <cue trading arcane build optimisation tips>
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.@ericlaw: takeaway was always that everyone always wanted a setup where they could: 1.) build on linux 2.) debug on windows 3.) run on mac
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does rr work on Chrome yet? That's what got me to stop debugging Firefox in Visual Studio.
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: dunno! How is it at multiprocess debugging?
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not bad. Take a recording, launch n instances of replay, one for each process you care about, sync with `when`
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it works for multiprocess Firefox.
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: interesting. Will try!
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let me know if it doesn't work. Building chromium is sufficiently involved that I haven't tried it myself.
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I talked to somebody on the Chrome team at Houdini meeting in SF in May who said it didn't work (then-ish)

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guess I should build chromium and see what syscalls rr is missing.
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IIRC it might have been more than missing syscalls, but maybe (??) @ojanvafai or @ElliottZ remembers
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