title: Recompiling a part of Google Chrome
body: <p>Wanting to take advantage (for the first time) of the open-source nature of open-source software, I want to edit part of Google Chrome. I know exactly which source file to edit, and it's a very small change. However, the entire <em>compressed</em> source distribution tarball is about a gigabyte, and I can't even imagine how painful the recompiling process would be, not to mention how much disk space it would use.</p>
  
  <p>So, the question is: Is there any better way to modify the program than to recompile the entire thing? It seems to be quite a painful thing to do for small changes.</p>