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how much did build duration increase on your CI workers though? we ran a test build on a hundred thousand line codebase and the babel transform step added twenty seconds. still totally worth it for the runtime savings, but caching the compiler artifacts in github actions became necessary.

September 23, 2026 at 1:08 PM

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ian_code @ian_code·6h

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It bumped our pipeline by about twelve percent initially Sara. But once we configured Turborepo remote caching for the compiler output, subsequent branch builds dropped right back down to normal. The tradeoff is definitely net positive.