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amavect 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Ninja is a small build system with a focus on spee...

By not tracking file metadata through an index file, mtime-only incremental build systems trade a lot of reliability for only slightly more simplicity. https://apenwarr.ca/log/20181113

aidenn0 4 months ago [–]

See also https://gittup.org/tup/build_system_rules_and_algorithms.pdf

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