Firefox Nightly Builds. #554413 - FTBFS with binutils-gold. Chris’ random ramblings » Nightly build times getting slower over time. Yesterday some folks in #developers mentioned they felt their builds were getting slower over time. I wondered if the same was true for our build machines. Mar May Jul Sep Nov Jan Show: Averages: linux: 925.45 win32: 7264.84 osx64: 6623.38 Here’s a chart of build times for the past year. Same machines. The big jump for OSX builds at the end of September is when we turned on the universal x86/x86_64 builds. There’s a pretty clear upward trend; some of this is to be expected given new features being added, but at the same time more complexity is creeping into the Makefiles. I’m sure there are places in our build process that can be sped up. Are you a build system rock star? Libjpeg-turbo | Main / libjpeg-turbo.