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vsgherziyesterday at 8:27 PM1 replyview on HN

I can only imagine that

1. it’s to performance sensitive

Or

2. The os is so darn large it’s hard to recompile everything


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kenferrytoday at 2:57 AM

I worked at Apple for a long time. The OS gets fully recompiled regularly.

A simultaneous total world build is relatively rare (is that needed here?), but it does happen. Sometimes new compiler versions or features need this.

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