Maddyson & CopyPaste
Been trying to shave minutes off my nightly build process—got any tricks or scripts that can speed it up?
Sure thing, here’s a quick cheat sheet: parallel jobs with make -j$(nproc) or ninja -j$(nproc) to hit all cores, enable ccache or sccache so repeated compilations skip the heavy lifting, use pre‑compiled headers if you’re in C/C++ land, split your build into sub‑modules so you only rebuild what changed, keep a persistent Docker layer cache in CI, and consider a lightweight task runner like just or Makefile with target‑based caching. If you’re still stuck, add a profiling step to pinpoint the slowest phase and tackle that first. Happy hacking!