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by nicoburns 1528 days ago
> structural isolation guarantees of the form "build execution during run N cannot possibly impact build execution of run N+1" are tremendously helpful

Yes although the flip side is that it can make caching much less efficient. My experience is that caching layer can often take several minutes to download, dominating CI run time, whereas this might be instant on a self-hosted box that just leaves the previous build artefacts in place.