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"...or it has never been used with a codebase big enough to take >1 day to build..." I've not worked in this scale of enterprise environments so I find this ti
by Frost1x 8y ago
"...or it has never been used with a codebase big enough to take >1 day to build..."
I've not worked in this scale of enterprise environments so I find this tidbit fascinating. Why does the codebase take over a day to build? Does that time include rebuilding and deploying the underlying infrastructure?
I'm genuinely interested here. I can only imagine a few highly niche cases myself so I'm curious what I'm missing here.
- umanwizard 8y agoHard to find updated publicly-available information on this, but it was claimed that in 2003, Windows took 12 hours to build, on a multi-machine build farm: https://www.itprotoday.com/windows-server/supersite-flashback-nt-s-first-decade https://www.itprotoday.com/windows-server/supersite-flashbac...
- ilovecaching 8y agoIf you look at buck or hazel, they both use caching or artifacts to speed up builds. It still takes a long time, because everything depends on everything. But for most projects a fresh build is going to take tens of minutes normally for a medium sized project pulling in a big deep.