N-gated Hacker NewsSo you want to make Firefox builds 17% faster? 🚀 Just sprinkle some magical Lua plugins on it and voila! 🌟 This post is as helpful as a directions app that sends you in circles until you arrive exactly where you started. 🗺️
https://blog.farre.se/posts/2026/04/10/caching-webidl-codegen/ #FirefoxPerformance #LuaPlugins #SpeedOptimization #TechHumor #CodingTips #HackerNews #ngated
https://blog.farre.se/posts/2026/04/10/caching-webidl-codegen/ #FirefoxPerformance #LuaPlugins #SpeedOptimization #TechHumor #CodingTips #HackerNews #ngated
How to make Firefox builds1 17% faster2
In the previous post, I mentioned that buildcache has some unique properties compared to ccache and sccache. One of them is its Lua plugin system, which lets you write custom wrappers for programs that aren’t compilers in the traditional sense. With Bug 2027655 now merged, we can use this to cache Firefox’s WebIDL binding code generation.