The Ten Minute Build

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27 points·kioub··6 comments

This article is breaking my heart. For me full build (C++) + unit tests takes about an hour on a good day, but I've seen times as long as 5hrs when the build server is acting up.

Damn, poor java people. 10 minutes just to build! I thought that more than 3 minutes to run the full test suite was so long it killed productivity.

No wonder java developers like 2 week or 1 month scrum cycles and infrequent releases. They work in slow motion.

I drop a brick if the build takes more than 30 seconds.

10 minutes is one hell of a compile-pray-cycle.

At the moment I'm suffering a 60 second build on a project and it's very frustrating.

It usually takes me about a tenth of a second to hit Control+C, Control+K in emacs, but the file is compiled and loaded into the running Lisp image much quicker than that.

Sometimes, I have to recompile several files due to a modified macro definition, and it can take several seconds. I am quite frustrated when this happens.

Indeed. Unfortunately those of us who have to use PHB mandated software (usually C# these days) will probably not be using LISP however much we beg, whinge, pray and even threaten.

LISP would make the world a better place, if it wasn't for the business-folk wanking over the fake promises of the larger vendors.

Even in PHB land, it's possible to have the kind of living eenvironment that lisp gives you. If you need an example, look at Notch's making of Prelude of the Chambered (his Ludum Dare entry) where he has live code reloading in Java.

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