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hrmtst93837today at 6:18 PM0 repliesview on HN

mtime rebuild logic is half-baked even by 1970s standards.

Bazel and Shake avoid this class of bug with content hashes, so a rename, restore, or tar extract does not leave the build graph in a stale state. Speed matters, but not enough to bet your repo on timestamp luck.