Some tools like ocamlformat, dune-release and opam-publish don't seem to depend on OCaml's object files format and so don't need to be built again and again.
This is a potentially huge speed improvement, as these tools have a lot of transitive dependencies (41 for ocamlformat and 105 for opam-publish), slowing down the sandbox build significantly.
Julow
commented
2 years ago
cc @panglesd
Some tools like
ocamlformat,dune-releaseandopam-publishdon't seem to depend on OCaml's object files format and so don't need to be built again and again.This is a potentially huge speed improvement, as these tools have a lot of transitive dependencies (
41forocamlformatand105foropam-publish), slowing down the sandbox build significantly.