Got it, thank you. Fwiw, that sounds like a bug or a misconfiguration; it's absolutely supposed to have better caching behavior than that (and does in the few

Got it, thank you. Fwiw, that sounds like a bug or a misconfiguration; it's absolutely supposed to have better caching behavior than that (and does in the few projects I've used it on, even on a personal laptop). If you're interested in pursuing it further (I'd understand if you aren't; that sounds frustrating), I bet the bazel team would be interested in your report.