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As the title suggests, I am interested to know what setup the graphene devs use on a day to day basis.

Google suggests many cores and at least 64gb ram, what do you guys use ?

The reason I ask is I'm interested in real world dev and how long a full build and incremental builds take on any particular hardware.

Cheers

    ACuriousFellow hello! While my setup isn't as fast as others are, it works for now. I use my Framework 13 AMD laptop (AMD 7640U) with 64 GB of RAM (but only 56 GB assigned to the VM) to build GrapheneOS in a Linux VM (WSL) for development. It takes 3 hours and 40 minutes for a clean build for the lynx-cur-userdebug target.

    Incremental builds are fairly fast though, maybe 20 seconds usually.

      Would it not be kind of similar to ASOP compile time/ hardware recommendations?

      I mean maybe just look for what they people use for this/ you ar more likely to find bechmarks for this

      grayway2 this isn't true. Essentially, 5950X or 7950X with 64 GB or preferably 128 GB is probably your best bet.

          soupslurpr I forgot you :) you're probably the only one who's seriously involved in the project to openly talk about this.

              I saw this shared over a year ago, so maybe they have newer ones, but here's what was said in a public room on Matrix:

              the official build hardware is 3 workstations: Ryzen 7950X with 128GB DDR5, i9-13900K with 128GB DDR4, Ryzen 5950X with 128GB DDR4

                grayway2 Maybe other devs are more active in other channels or simply don't want to repeat themselves.. Also as soupslurpr said, disclosing your hardware (like saying I have this CPU, this amount of ram etc) won't make you any more targetable. It simply does not work that way..

                  ACuriousFellow Based on experience, as of early 2025, 32 GB is a genuine impediment and should be avoided; 64 GB is workable if you are using prebuilt kernels and Vanadium. But keep in mind that the resource demands have been going up over time, so boxing oneself in to a 64 GB max might be unfortunate later in a year or two.

                    Thanks so much for the replies, it shows the hardware I was looking at would be grossly underpowered haha.

                    One more question if I may, soupslurpr do you use android studio for platform as an ide for dev and debugging?