What do you spend your time on while something is building for an hour or more?
I end up doing reviews and triaging issues, but of course 30 minutes or longer to wait on a compile breaks focus.
Ask HN: How do you deal with long compile times?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you deal with long compile times?
#2Focus is not usually the problem here. It's actually context-switch.
Avoid any task that has high context-switch cost.
Re: Ask HN: How do you deal with long compile times?
#3Go for a walk.
Re: Ask HN: How do you deal with long compile times?
#4Writing documentation of the changes that were made, Writing test cases for the code that I just added, Writing a detailed commit message for the changes...
...and trying to figure out if the compile time can be reduced!