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Re:Memoize – a replacement for make relying on strace by ianbicking on Friday April 10, 2015 @06:29PM (#9357449)
If you think of a build step as a function, taking some files as input (the source) and returning a result (the compiled artifact), then this tool is memoizing the that function.
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Re:Memoize – a replacement for make relying on strace by scott_s on Friday April 10, 2015 @10:04PM (#9358112)
Agreed - from the name and the mention of strace, I immediately got how it worked.
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