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Re:Ask HN: Big software teams, how do you manage your comput... by RealityVoid on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @04:30AM (#12208518)
While a few seconds is unrealistically fast, if you ask me, I did notice that long testings duration is very detrimental to the quality and testability of a code base.

If you have to wait 1h for testing feedback it kills the development inertia.

And so do slow development tools, compiling something for 2 h and then getting negative feedback is not cool, and yet this is something I've seen happen at my current job and it drives me insane.

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Re:Ask HN: Big software teams, how do you manage your comput... by contingencies on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @10:52AM (#12210363)
compiling something for 2 h and then getting negative feedback is not cool, and yet this is something I've seen happen at my current job and it drives me insane.

You could consider an on-demand cloud-based compile farm, or incremental builds with snapshots.

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