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by alkonaut 2186 days ago
> it had 92 dependencies, including transitive dependencies, and took 5 minutes and 38 seconds to build.

What is it that triggers such a "full" build though? Obviously in some CI scenarios you might start from scratch, but in an edit/compile cycle, you'd never be hitting those 5 minutes, correct?
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Measter 2185 days ago
Typically in an edit/compile cycle you'd only compile your dependencies once for each build type (check, debug, release). Unless you change a dependency's feature flag, the compiler will just re-use what's already been compiled.

If you clean your build folder, things will need to be rebuilt from scratch. Likewise if you change your compiler version.

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alkonaut 2185 days ago
It seems a CI system should be able to work the same way and cache the dependencies just like a local build.

If it does, then the long compile times are almost never encountered for neither developers nor CI. So are they really problematic?

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