We deleted the build cache last week to see what would happen. Two hours of pain, then a 40% faster median build — because half of what was cached was never correct in the first place.
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- Tomas Lind21 minutes agoHow did you find the incorrect entries? We suspect the same but have no evidence.
- Mei Watanabe14 minutes agoWe hashed the inputs twice with different environment orderings. Anything that produced two hashes was suspect.