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Discussion on: What's the longest build time you've experienced?

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ecyrbe • Edited

Oh boy!
Back in the day, i had a c++ pipeline taking more than 30 minutes to build...

But the builds where hapenning on the developper machine.

It was coffee time all the time :)

There was no github actions, circle ci services out there... So we built our own with buildbot.

Builds still took time. But they where no more hapenning on the developper's PC.

Happily us, nowadays, build server are the norm, and no builds are disrupting developper workflow...

Sad part, less coffee Times 😁

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Aaron Gong

VC++ in the 2000s.

Mine was 90 mins to 2 hours and it was a network build.

The the h file is global, even if there is a small change, its long build time again, and utilizing CPU of other machines in the network.

Literally paid to do nothing...

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Abhinav Kulshreshtha

I do miss the build (coffee) time. We had a large build+commit every friday, at that time, it was a large monolithic asp-dotnet+sql_server application. We were a 7 person startup, so our boss would take us all to restaurant for drinks and feast.