There are 2 factors here: 1) I was being conservative on my promises. For instance, we have users who reported GHA runtimes going down from ~25m to ~9m [1] 2)

There are 2 factors here: 1) I was being conservative on my promises. For instance, we have users who reported GHA runtimes going down from ~25m to ~9m [1] 2) Local builds have the amazing advantage of being able to cache subsequent runs. CI workflows are ephemeral. This introduces a performance penalty. However, we are working on something that automagically caches some builds, especially container builds, that would enable huge benefits of 2x-10x further. Hope this clarifies! [1] https://x.com/suryaoruganti/status/1730419264132370556 https://x.com/suryaoruganti/status/1730419264132370556