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Watchman: Faster builds with large source trees

Watchman: Faster builds with large source trees

5/30/2013 · Wez Furlong

What this post added

This post introduces Watchman, an open-source tool developed to significantly speed up build times for large source trees by enabling incremental processing of file changes. This directly addresses a bottleneck in the development workflow, allowing engineers to iterate faster and improving overall developer efficiency.

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