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martincmartin | karma 7316 | avg karma 8.6 · 2022-04-12 16:29:48

How so? I never thought of it as slow.

Source: Was a Meta infra engineer until last month, working in CDN & LogDevice, among other teams.

influx | karma 2328 | avg karma 3.29 · 2022-04-12 16:40:27

What else have you used? Source: Meta infra PE until last month, but have used build and source system at Amazon and found it faster.

martincmartin | karma 7316 | avg karma 8.6 · 2022-04-12 17:10:24

Yeah the fbcode build system was hella slow. A minute plus just to build the "action graph." I did marvel at all the lost productivity, especially since an minute plus is enough time for me to context switch to another task, or at least go get (another) cup of tea...

Mercurial / Eden were pretty fast though. Never had complaints about them.

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ai_ja_nai | karma 668 | avg karma 2.46 · 2022-04-13 08:38:18

you should have tried buck2 ;) instantaneous