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HiPhishtoday at 5:57 PM1 replyview on HN

Serious question: how can a build tool be fast or slow? From my understanding all it does is delegate the build steps to other tools, so wouldn't those be the bottleneck? Is it the resolution of order of build steps that takes so much time that a different build system can make a difference?


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evmartoday at 6:04 PM

[ninja author] My first post about Ninja goes into this: https://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2011/02/ninja....

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