Slow Build Times

Developers discuss long software build times, their causes in large projects, and mitigation strategies like incremental builds, caching, and better tooling.

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AFAIK WSL FB CPU FS CI github.com SBCL VM README builds build seconds minutes times takes project incremental cache takes seconds

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bigstumpy May 2, 2017 View on HN

Do you have problems with long build times? How do you mitigate them?

cercatrova Nov 1, 2022 View on HN

I want those. Why would devs not want fast build times and incremental compilation through caching?

dzdt Oct 30, 2018 View on HN

Ye gods. And I thought build times were long enough already!

iLoveOncall Dec 9, 2022 View on HN

If your build time or test runtime takes 30 minutes I'd argue your problem won't be solved by faster hardware.

jonhohle Jan 30, 2021 View on HN

Your build time is someone else’s runtime.

joshuamorton Sep 17, 2017 View on HN

What are you doing where a build takes that long (and can't be done incrementally)?

saagarjha Oct 5, 2020 View on HN

I suspect your projects don’t take a while to build ;)

Benjammer Feb 15, 2017 View on HN

Who needs to "iterate" so quickly that several minutes added to your build time becomes a huge issue?

norir Dec 1, 2023 View on HN

8. What does blazingly-fast build times mean quantitatively? How does it scale with project size?

reader_mode May 27, 2021 View on HN

Build times should be better no ? Unless you have enough ram to keep it all im cache ?