hn • r/hackernews
Comment on: Faster Than Ninja
Why not just embrace Content Based Addressing and the Bazel action cache? Not necessarily adopt the RBE protos, but you could have on-disk cache that are similar or even identical.Nowadays, I think a build tool that doesn't natively support distributed caching (and possibly remote execution) is a weird choice. And I don't think that spawning layers of processes allows for good parallelization as you don't know if an action is going to be network bound or compute bound and the job slot is then spent. So you either oversubscribe or undersubscribe.